Hello @ebingo,

An intriguing article, but I am afraid I will throw a bit of a fly in the ointment here. Whenever I see gender differences in medical outcomes/symptoms I stop and take a closer look. If self reporting is in any way involved, that makes the statistical gender gap suspect.

Here, for example is a 2021 article published in Frontiers in Psychiatry which challenges the gap.

An excerpt from that article:

The phenomenon of female preponderance in depression has been well-reported, which has been challenged by higher rates of suicide and addictive behaviors in males, and a longer life-span in females. We thus propose an alternative hypothesis “Gender differences in self-reporting symptom of depression”

The article is quite interesting and makes a lot of sense. It certainly questions the traditional view of depression rates in men and women.

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