· • Only 2 in every 5 people experiencing a mood, anxiety or substance use disorder seeking assistance in the year of the onset of the disorder.
• Unipolar depression, predicted to be the second leading cause of global disability burden by 2020, is twice as common in women.
• The lifetime prevalence rate for alcohol dependence, another common disorder, is more than twice as high in men as women. In developed countries, approximately 1 in 5 men and 1 in 12 women develop alcohol dependence during their lives.
• Men are also more than three times more likely to be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder than women.
• The high prevalence of sexual violence to which women are exposed and the correspondingly high rate of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following such violence, renders women the largest single group of people affected by this disorder.
• Men are more likely than women to disclose problems with alcohol use to their health care provider.
Women's mental health: The Facts
Depressive disorders account for close to 41.9% of the disability from neuropsychiatric disorders among women compared to 29.3% among men.
Leading mental health problems of the older adults are depression, organic brain syndromes and dementias. A majority are women.
An estimated 80% of 50 million people affected by violent conflicts, civil wars, disasters, and displacement are women and children.
Lifetime prevalence rate of violence against women ranges from 16% to 50%.
At least one in five women suffers rape or attempted rape in their lifetime.
Depression, anxiety, psychological distress, sexual violence, domestic violence and escalating rates of substance use affect women to a greater extent than men across different countries and different settings. Pressures created by their multiple roles, gender discrimination and associated factors of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, overwork, domestic violence and sexual abuse; combine to account for women's poor mental health. There is a positive relationship between the frequency and severity of such social factors and the frequency and severity of mental health problems in women. Severe life events that cause a sense of loss, inferiority, humiliation or entrapment can predict depression.
• Myth: Mental health problems are very rare.
• Fact: 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem in any given year.
• Myth: People with mental illness aren’t able to work.
• Fact: We probably all work with someone experiencing a mental health problem.
• Myth: Young people just go through ups and downs as part of puberty, it’s nothing.
• Fact: 1 in 10 young people will experience a mental health problem.
• Myth: People with mental health illnesses are usually violent and unpredictable.
• Fact: People with a mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violence.
• Myth: People with mental health problems don't experience discrimination
• Fact: 9 out of 10 people with mental health problems experience stigma and discrimination.
• Myth: It’s easy for young people to talk to friends about their feelings.
• Fact: Nearly three in four young people fear the reactions of friends when they talk about their mental health problems.
• The majority of violent crimes and homicides are committed by people who do not have mental health problems.
• People with mental health problems are more dangerous to themselves than they are to others: 90 per cent of people who die through suicide in the UK are experiencing mental distress.
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