There are many mental disorders that can be experienced by the community. But studies show that mental disorders are often experienced by women and men were not the same.
A new study suggests that some mental disorders are more often experienced by men and women turned out differently. These findings suggest that there needs to be prevention and treatment efforts based on gender-specific.
Known women are more prone to anxiety disorders to keep emotions in his body, causing the emergence of a sense of loneliness and depression. While the boys are more likely to express and show his emotions so much toward impulsive, aggressive or coercive.
The research team told how women and men internalize and externalize his emotions could be a basis to explain differences in mental health problems based on gender.
“In women the treatment may focus on coping and cognitive skills to prevent the occurrence of clinically significant depression,” said study leader Nicholas Eaton, of the University of Minnesota.
Meanwhile, Eaton revealed to men, treatment for impulsive behavior is more focused on the actions planned and aggressive behavior tendencies that are not destructive.
Most of the treatment of mental disorders using cognitive and behavioral therapies such as, but in some cases sometimes require the help of medication, so using a combination therapy. Untreated mental disorders can affect a person’s quality of life will decline.
The study analyzed data from the 2001-2002 to 43,000 people conducted by the National Institutes of Health, and has been published in the online edition of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.