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Bipolar Disorder and Other Mental Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment

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“Prevention efforts that focus on gender-linked core psychological processes are likely to be effective in impacting multiple disorders,” the study states. “In women, these preventative measures might focus, for instance, on coping and cognitive restructuring skills to reduce the likelihood of rumination and cognitive distortions developing into clinically significant depression or anxiety.”

Although the study intends to provide insight for more effective treatments, some mental health experts do see some possible concerns with the study as a result of thinking of some mental disorders as women’s versus men’s.

“I think we need to be careful not to say that depression and anxiety are ‘women's disorders,’” said Sheela Raja, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in an email.

Raja thinks labeling some disorders as women’s disorders and others as men’s disorders might do the opposite of getting people proper treatment.

https://www.empowher.com/mental-health/content/are-anxiety-and-depression-womens-disorders

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