Identify 4 Types Of Mental Disorders That Women Often Experience

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JAKARTA - In addition to maintaining physical health such as changing lifestyle, diet, and exercise routine, do not forget how important it is to maintain mental health as well. Because the fact that women are vulnerable to psychiatric disorders is greater than men.

The causes are varied, but it doesn't hurt to find out to be more alert and get help immediately if you experience it. Well, here are four mental problems that often come to women:

Baby blues

After childbirth, many women experience baby blues which is one of the mental problems. Baby blues is a syndrome that makes women more sensitive, irritable and angry, depressed, and sad for several weeks postpartum.

Usually this syndrome appears due to fatigue, adapting to newborns, as well as hormonal changes. After giving birth, the life feels instantly changed. You may still want to recover the body after passing the moment of childbirth, still feel uncomfortable with the change in body shape, also still confused how to care for the baby.

However, at the same time you also have to breastfeed and take care of the baby, keep taking care of the household affairs, and feel depressed with everything that happens.

Depression

Women are also prone to depression. The causes can vary, ranging from puberty, pregnancy, miscarriage, menopause, heavy workload, abuse, genetic or environmental factors, or indeed there are personal problems that accumulate.

In contrast to stress, this depression is a mental disorder whose impact is very bad. Sufferers can experience mood disorders, appetite, sleep patterns, feeling sad and hopelessly protracted, thinking of death, even to self-harm and want to kill themselves.

Anxiety disorder

Anxiety may be a normal thing to happen when you experience things beyond expectations. However, this anxiety disorder is more than usual anxiety. Usually the anxiety will soon disappear when the problem has been resolved.

However, people who have this disorder feel excessive anxiety until it is difficult to control. Even until it is difficult to sleep, the heart continues to pound, difficulty concentrating, cold sweats, restlessness, and can not calm for a long time. You will need help from a psychiatrist to deal with this problem and get the right treatment.

Eating disorder

Women are also prone to eating disorders, ranging from anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. This disorder is usually related to emotions that allow a person to eat very much or even very little at extreme levels.

The cause of eating disorder can be due to genetic factors, hormonal imbalances, and feelings of dissatisfaction in the body itself, for example too fat to feel bad.  Especially if you are still close to people who think it should be thin or slim, while fat women are considered no lower. If you experience any symptoms, contact a psychologist or psychiatrist immediately for intensive care.