Depression can impact every area of a woman’s life including their physical health, social life, relationships, career, and sense of self-worth and is complicated by factors such as reproductive hormones, social pressures, and the unique female response to stress.
Feeling angry, agitated, restless.
Feeling fatigued, sluggish, and drained of energy.
Trouble concentrating, making decisions, or remembering things.
Increase in aches and pains, including headaches, cramps, breast tenderness, or bloating.
Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts.
Depression in women is very common and in fact , women are twice as likely to develop clinical depression as men. According to researchers says that upto one in four women is likely to have an episode of major depression.
Some experts believe that the increased chance of depression in women may be related to changes in hormone levels that occur throughout a woman’s life. These changes are evident during puberty, pregnancy, and menopause, as well as after giving birth or experiencing a miscarriage.
In addition, the hormone fluctuations that occur with each month’s menstrual cycle probably contribute to premenstrual syndrome, or PMS, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD — a severe syndrome marked especially by depression, anxiety, and mood swings that occurs the week before menstruation and interferes with normal functioning of daily life.
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