Mental Health in Women

What can affect a women’s mental health:

• Being a carer leading to stress, anxiety and isolation
• Living in poverty, concerns about safety and working at home can lead to social isolation.
• Physical and sexual abuse
• Sexual violence

Issues growing up within family or friends (i.e. family breakup, bullying). In 2021 there were 113, 505 divorces in the UK. Family breakups can affect both male and female especially if there was trauma associated with it.

Divorces in England and Wales – Office for National Statistics

Women might find it hard to talk, so might keep it hidden. This can lead to depression, eating disorders and self-harm.

Women and mental health | Mental Health Foundation

Mental health in women can have an impact especially if they are looking after children full time on their own. The way they might deal with might have something to do with who brings them up, for example they might focus on work more if their dad was more involved, they might go to spending money as a therapy. If the spending is more than normal it could be a sign mental health especially if it becomes hoarding. Excessive alcohol drinking and eating disorders can also be a sign of mental health. Any characteristics that aren’t normal and out of character could be a sign of mental health.