Race

 Another article by the American Psychological Association analyzed a different demographic of mental health disorders, this aspect being gender. The article began by outlining that women are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety and depression while men fall more into substance abuse and antisocial disorders. With this being said, the article also highlights that both can have the same mental health disorders but handle them dramatically differently. For example, “women with anxiety disorders are more likely to internalize emotions, which typically results in withdrawal, loneliness and depression. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to externalize emotions, which leads to aggressive, impulsive, coercive and noncompliant behavior.” With my primary research, I also wanted to identify if more females or males suffer from mental health disorders, to which I could easily tell after my interviews and survey that it was females. However, I was surprised to read my survey responses because it appeared that most of the men that responded claimed that their mental health disorder was PTSD while women it was mostly anxiety and depression. The men who responded to my survey stated that they are often afraid to speak on their disorder for the fear that they will get the common response towards men that they need to "toughen up." Following this, I can conclude that the article was for the most part very accurate in stating how women tend to focus on negative emotions while men try to resolve them. All of my interviewees were women, and all of them stated that they frequently focus on their negative emotions and aspects of their disorder.