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Women’s depression.

Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression in their lifetime than men.
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INTERVIEW – In Depression in womenPsychiatrists Lucy Joly and Hugo Bottemann reveal the female characteristics of depression that are still too often overlooked. They urge their understanding to improve care and treatment.

The numbers are amazing. 8 to 16% of women between the ages of 18 and 50 experience depression each year. During pregnancy and in the postpartum period, this indicator reaches 20%, and in general, women are twice as often affected by this disease than men. How can this prevalence be explained? Does depression have a gender? Lucie Joly, psychiatrist at the Hospital Saint-Antoine and Trousseau, specialist in perinatal care, and Hugo Bottemann, psychiatrist at the Hospital Bicêtre, former head of the clinic at the Maison des Femmes de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, wonder about the puzzle in the book. Depression in women (1). They describe the still mysterious evil that is this disease and especially its feminine features, which are still too neglected. The question: Better understanding, better care, better treatment.

If women’s biology and hormonal fluctuations throughout their lives predispose them to depression, the authors provide…

Source: Le Figaro

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