https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/21/one-in-four-women-psych-meds Are women crazy? Historically, the world's mostly male "great thinkers" tended to think so, characterizing women as emotionally unstable. A report from MedCo published last week notes that 25% of US women take psychotropic medications for depression, anxiety, ADHD or another mental disorder. In men, that number is 15%. One article notes that more and more women have been prescribed anti-depressants in the past decade, and that nearly twice as many women are on anti-anxiety treatment as their male counterparts. "One in four is too many, suggesting that either women, or our doctors, are being sold on an ideal of mental health that's unrealistic." And it's worse than you think. You can read countless accounts online of Millennial men complaining that most of the women out there in the dating pool are crazy & psychotic. This is the younger generation. Women under 35. What could be causing this? Is it all the pressure women are under these days? Disappearance of religion? Changing economy? The influence of feminism and the values these women hold? Perhaps so many women are on birth control pills, and it is messing with their hormone levels? Maybe the lack of intact families and a father figure who wasn't present? Maybe the new way that society is developing where there is no marriage and commitment, and women are used as sperm receptacles, and expected to "**** like a man" and enjoy her freedom? If this is really true, this is a troubling phenomena. Society may not be headed in a good direction.
This interesting article might give a deeper understanding into what's going on: A 2020 Pew Research study reveals that over half of white, liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point. The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even "very liberal". What's more, white women suffered the worst of all. White women, ages 18-29 who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives. https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/o...pVLFAbV-_HLq3AN4F4w7sbBoPZkbiYAQH9CZ9ex3agnYI
This is a quote from another woman posted on another forum: I don't know what it is. But my personal best guess is it's the feminist thing. Women are wired to be homemakers. But society has told women that they must have a viable career, make as much money as a man does, and still manage to have children and get a proper nanny or day care to raise them so that that all-important career won't be hindered in any way. That is a lot of pressure. So it's no wonder women need something for the stress it brings. And yes......feminists are also supposed to use sex as recreation. And again, women are wired so that sex means love and commitment. The radical feminists who made up this stuff are, for a large part, lesbians who have a different mindset from normal women. They expect normal women to function like they do. It doesn't work that way. I am sorry for young women who have been trapped into the feminist mindset. I escaped it somehow. Too stubborn, I guess. - Jen
Could be lots of things. For example, men are probably less likely to seek mental healthcare, or even healthcare in general. Might be because they less often 'feel crazy', or because going to the doctor is 'for wussies', or who knows. Could also be a pregnancy thing, like doctors prescribing 'temporary' low-dose antidepressants during pregnancy to offset the emotional effects of hormone fluctuations, and then after pregnancy just being like 'well, its usually best to not stop taking these...' Prolly with no small amount of encouragement from the pharmaceutical manufacturers. But then again, there's this: Women don’t spend as much time as men outdoors. That’s a problem. - Women’s Media Center (womensmediacenter.com) "Women are both less physically active than men and more prone to becoming smart-phone dependent, which can increase anxiety." Thats prolly a big part of it.
I won’t vote for women because I think they’re unstable as well. Stable families are going down hill as well. I think all you pointed out is bad news but remember that women are a large part in why our country went those directions.
When you look at threads like this, the responses to these threads and comments in other threads like this... Is it any wonder why women are having anxiety issues when it seems like it's the boys vs. the girls? When they have to put up with these sorts of attitudes day in and day out for the majority of their lives, it's a damn wonder they don't go psychotic and go "Lorena Bobbitt" on menfolk more often.
I've worked with many really nice and accomplished professional women [physicians] and almost all of them were stressed out to the max and absolutely miserable. These women had to balance professional careers with kids and husbands and all the other demands and just couldn't do it. All but one seemed to have toxic marriages and kids who were doing some serious acting out, as well. They also had all the goodies [nice homes, cars, and all the rest], but it didn't seem to matter much. The bottom-line...you can't have it all. Women [and society] need to decide what's more important, family or career.
The obsession to obtain happiness, the holy grail of girls and women, is my best bet for why so many girls and women have been falling apart. Happiness is a brief phenomena that [occasionally] comes and goes like all things. Contentment, OTOH [being ok with whatever comes], is obtainable through living a balanced life. But look at what Madison Avenue has sold to girls/women over the past 70 years? Pure non-sense. I've had the good fortune ?? to be with several seriously nice looking [girls/women] over the years, yet they all had serious inferiority complexes. In a society where appearance is pretty much everything, women have been conditioned to believe they are never good enough, no matter what they look like or what they do. And the killer is that that attribute guys like most in girls/women the [by far] is her smile, something so rare to find in women who are stressed to the max.
If I thought you really cared about the stresses women feel, you would do something to relève them. Help with the housewoek. The children. Buycher à gift or à card as a surprise to say how you appreciate her. Décidé which one's careers are more important and expect less of the other one. She is only feeling what men have been feeling for a long time. And mâle suicide is getting more and more common. Maybe they shouldn't be too proud to try meds.
You mean like give her Vicodin or Oxycodone? (sarcasm) (For those who may not know, these are pills that are commonly being prescribed to women, for emotional problems and "anxiety", but people should not be taking them, not unless there is a serious medical problem that needs pain management)
what is wrong with vicodin, that doesn't get one high, I have had that a few times and had Oxycodone after surgery, and it just made me tired not party drugs for sure
I watch and read a lot of stuff about modern dating between men and women and mostly what I see is women are narcissistic. They have all these preferences they place on men and act as though any preference a man has is an insult or misogynistic. It seems a lot of women want a traditional man but don't want to be traditional women I don't know if I would say that it's crazy it's just people need to get a grip on reality.
I have had it, I did not feel high in the least with vicodin I guess different drugs affect people differently, if you got high off them
Okay, I thought you meant you frequently take it and see nothing wrong with frequently taking it for no real serious physical medical condition.
Most of what a man does is to appeal to women. Men tend not to take meds or talk about their emotions because women don't want them too. It's seen as weak unmanly. I know all of these things men do to impress the opposite sex because I used to do those things back before I accepted that I was gay. When the only people I had to impress were men life became much simpler. I could cry, I could feel, I could be vulnerable and my partner had license to do that as well. I noticed something among my straight male friends especially when they were away from their wives/girlfriends they opened up to me as well. Most of what men do is all about finding and keeping women. I think that's why people like to detect gay men as effeminate. It's because they don't have to do all the crap straight men do to keep women around. The more I learn about this the more appalled I am at the extreme selfishness some women express. Me me me me me. Give me a card, buy me flowers, give me gifts, I'm a princess and you're nothing without me. Me me me me me. What in the hell do these women offer men? Even asking that question is seen as misogynistic. Women who do things to meet the needs of their husbands and post about it on social media are savaged with bitter hatred. Maybe this increase in mental illness is because men are not picking them.
nope, have been prescribed it and was not a party drug or one that got me high, so seems weird to me some would abuse it
You're taking a medically prescribed dosage. Certain prescription drugs are taken with other drugs such as alcohol or in higher dosages like oxycodone or Xanax.
I have been prescribed Xanax years ago too for anxiety, that one was fine while taking it, harder to quit due to physical withdraw - but still not a drug I can see abusing - lorazepam is usually what they prescribe now
So? People used to abuse it all the time. It used to be a big deal before oxycodone. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean anything.
Though I do think women are prescribed anti depressants more then men....I don't buy that 25% of women are using. I don't see that in the crowd I hang with, work with or go to church with. Men don't go to counselors or psychiatrists at the same rate as women do.
