Some facts about Gender Differences in Psychopathology

 

1) Although, as said earlier, no significant gender differences exist. Some gender differences in some disorders have been found. We present here some facts pertaining to specific disorders in males and females.

2) Major depression is more common in women with a 2:1 ratio.

3) Dysthymia is more prevalent in women with a ratio of 2-3:1. The prevalence of depression in women is almost double as compared to the prevalence in men.

4) The rate of personality disorders is higher among men.

5) In case of Substance Related Disorders, men are higher in Alcohol dependence.

6) Women are at a higher risk in sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolytics.

7) Women are at a higher risk of panic attacks.

8) There are no gender differences in obsessive compulsive disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder.

9) Conversion Disorder is substantially more common in women than in men.

10)Women account for 95% of somatization disorder patients. In the U.S, this diagnosis is rare in men, but not so in other cultures.

11)There are no gender differences in Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder.

12)Sexual dysfunction, Paraphilias is rarely diagnosed in women, and the men to women ratio are 20:1.

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