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SophiaGrace
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Well take the aspect of Depression for example. That mental illness is expressed in different ways in men vs women, and also expressed in different ways cross-culturally.
For women, we tend to ruminate and cry when we are depressed.
For men, they tend to ACT OUT, when they get depressed. They become violent or turn to drugs to cope with those negative emotions.
It's the same disease! Only it gets expressed in different ways.
Also, cross-culturally depression is expressed differently.
For native americans it is described as "broken heartedness"
and in Latin-American countries depression gets expressed as feelings in the body when people describe it to their physicians.
Same thing, different ways of expressing it...
Just because it gets expressed differently doesn't mean it isn't the same thing or that one expression is better or less than another.
For women, we tend to ruminate and cry when we are depressed.
For men, they tend to ACT OUT, when they get depressed. They become violent or turn to drugs to cope with those negative emotions.
It's the same disease! Only it gets expressed in different ways.
Also, cross-culturally depression is expressed differently.
For native americans it is described as "broken heartedness"
and in Latin-American countries depression gets expressed as feelings in the body when people describe it to their physicians.
Same thing, different ways of expressing it...
Just because it gets expressed differently doesn't mean it isn't the same thing or that one expression is better or less than another.