WOMEN’s MENTAL HEALTH
Throughout a woman’s life, there are various stressors, as well as hormonal transitions, which can affect symptoms of mood and anxiety. Evaluation and treatment by a psychiatrist and/or therapist using evidence-based medication management and therapeutic interventions can be very effective.
Some mental health conditions occur more often in women and can play a significant role in the state of a woman’s overall health.
While men experience higher rates of autism, early onset schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, and alcoholism, mental health conditions more common in women include:
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Depression. Women are twice as likely as men (12 percent of women compared to 6 percent of men) to get depression.
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Anxiety and specific phobias. Although men and women are affected equally by such mental health conditions as obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobias, women are twice as likely as men to have panic disorder, generalized anxiety, and specific phobias.
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Post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). Women are twice as likely to develop PTSDfollowing a traumatic event.
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Suicide attempts. Men die from suicide at four times the rate that women do, but women attempt suicide two or three times more often than men.
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Eating disorders. Women account for at least 85 percent of all anorexia and bulimiacases and 65 percent of binge-eating disorder cases.
SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
Our comprehensive care includes psychiatric evaluation and treatment of women with:
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Anxiety disorders
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Depression
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Mood disorders
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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
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Postpartum anxiety
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Postpartum depression
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Postpartum psychosis
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