Women and Mental Health: Supporting Women’s Unique Needs
Behavioral Health Insights
By Micah Hoffman, MD, DABPN, FAPA, QME, CIME, CHCQM
AllMed Behavioral Health Medical Director
Mental illness can affect anyone. The same condition often looks different in women than in men. For example, women with anxiety disorders are more likely to internalize emotions, resulting in withdrawal, loneliness, and depression. Men are more likely to externalize emotions, leading to impulsive, coercive, and noncompliant behavior.1
For decades, research efforts focused primarily on male subjects. Now, that focus is changing because of mandates by agencies that fund research, like the National Institutes for Health. Optimizing care for women’s health calls for up-to-date and in-depth awareness of the biological and societal disparities between women’s and men’s mental health.…
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