Article: Depression is a woman ... 
According to WHO get sick of the dark evil two to three times more than males and also in Italy cases are increasing constantly. The causes of this epidemic for women? Both order Metabolic (hormones and co.) as well as social: too many tasks and expectations
The Italians are depressed about 15 million, 25% of the population: a massacre of serenity, the higher the price paid by women who represent the majority of total. Depression is an illness itself, and it is estimated that in ten years will be the second leading cause of disability in the developed world. Not only that, one in four people, according to data of 'Eurostat, will suffer at least once in the life of a mental disorder. According to data from the World Health Organisation females fall ill with depression two to three times more than males. One woman in six, therefore, has to do with evil in accounts Dark: inability to make decisions, apathy, insomnia, irritability, difficulty in sexual relations and sentimental, search of solitude, loss of interest in the life of others.
But why women? The reasons, experts say, are of metabolic and social development. "It plays an important role progestogens factor, namely the female life cycle (pregnancy, postpartum, premenstrual syndrome, menopause), but it is more appropriate to speak of contributing factors: genetic factors than to those of seasonal climate general - says Claudio Mencacci, Director of Neuroscience Center of Fatebenefratelli hospital in Milan depression woman -. Furthermore, depression is an increase compared to the past because you have changed the role of women in society, which sees more and more committed and, therefore, subject to a strong physical and emotional stress. " The blame, according to the expert, also "the net increase in the amount of work and the woman is under stress, sleep disorders more often especially in big cities, and the escalation of violence between the domestic walls, a high-risk factors. "
symptoms to be monitored to detect the first signs? "Anxiety, panic attacks, anorexia, bulimia, post-partum depression are the first signs to be reckoned with in time to recognize the disorder, "says Mencacci. Women often react to pressure with the misuse of drugs and alcohol, "a causal factor that the scientific community is looking more and more in new cases of depression." The result was a tragic chain reaction that makes them slaves twice, and the glass of the disease (when the blister pack of pills and sleeping pills, or worse still, cocaine).
"Women should not be defeated by this disease, which can make life alienating. - Is convinced Merzagora Francesca, president of the National Women's Health - weapons to deal with depression and there are effective, but we must know the causes and signals to deal with it without shame, turning to specialized centers. " Or asking for help to a nation wide toll free number (800274274), created to provide psychiatric support for those suffering from depression but also anxiety, panic attacks, anorexia, bulimia (Ithaca Project - National Observatory for Women's Health ). Free news
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