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Re: Daughters of WWII refugees are more likely to have mental illness: study

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Post by emsy » Fri, Dec 01, 2017, 7:29 PM UTC

DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

emsy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Women tend to have a lot more social baggage There are studies that show that women internalise emotional traumata much deeper than men, thus have a higher risk of PTSD (Can't remember if this is linked to the on-average better memory of women). As far as I know this is unrelated to the fact that women are more likely to seek help for mental issues (which would naturally skew the numbers towards women).

There are studies that show that women internalise emotional traumata much deeper than men, thus have a higher risk of PTSD (Can't remember if this is linked to the on-average better memory of women). This in no way rebuts my thought. What if they are related? What if women internalize trauma more and suffer PTSD more in part because the entire social fabric of their life experience is fundamentally different from me…

I did not intend to rebut! I saw you downvoted for no given reason (as so often these days on HN) and wanted to support your comment. People interested in this topic will have no problem finding the relevant studies, which is why I didn't even bother to include links.

I just wish people didn't abuse the downvote button so often. Instead of pushing irrelevant or toxic comments down, it's used to punish differing opinions. (Sorry for the offtopic rant)

Re: Daughters of WWII refugees are more likely to have mental illness: study

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Post by DoreenMichele » Fri, Dec 01, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

emsy wrote: post #31

DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are studies that show that women internalise emotional traumata much deeper than men, thus have a higher risk of PTSD (Can't remember if this is linked to the on-average better memory of women). This in no way rebuts my thought. What if they are related? What if women internalize trauma more and suffer PTSD more in part because the entire social fabric of their life experience is fundamentally different from me…

I did not intend to rebut! I saw you downvoted for no given reason (as so often these days on HN) and wanted to support your comment. People interested in this topic will have no problem finding the relevant studies, which is why I didn't even bother to include links. I just wish people didn't abuse the downvote button so often. Instead of pushing irrelevant or toxic comments down, it's used to punish differing opini…

Thank you for the clarification.

Re: Daughters of WWII refugees are more likely to have mental illness: study

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Post by jdietrich » Fri, Dec 01, 2017, 10:48 PM UTC

tomp wrote: post #17

DoreenMichele wrote: post #3

Women tend to also have a lot more social baggage hung on them. It makes me wonder if the evacuation and trauma made it particularly difficult to figure out how to fit in socially in a new place. (I mean as just one element that may have contributed.)

Citations? AFAIK more men commit suicide so any inference drawn from such superficial statistics is going to be shaky at best...

Substantially more women than men attempt suicide; more men than women die by suicide, because they tend to choose far more lethal methods. Wrist-cutting and drug overdoses are preferred by women and have a survival rate of over 98%; firearms have a fatality rate of over 80%, while hanging has a fatality rate of over 60%.

Suicide tends to be impulsive and 70% of people who survive a suicide attempt do not make a further attempt, so the lethality of the chosen method has a huge impact on completion rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-...