I've wondered this for a while; it somehow seems to me that my A level psychology syllabus is actually leaning in the favour of women.

We recently finished the depression and anxiety disorders module and the evidence is really mounting up.

It keeps making women out to be the most depressed and most victimized. It doesn't actually blame men but it leaves it open to assumption.

While going through the slide show provided by the BPS [British Psychological Society] A whole 5 slides were explaining in great detail how PMS and other women's problems cause them to be more depressed than men. But ONE LINE of those 5 slides said, "Testosterone is known to produce depression in males, also."

I really don't know what to think of this.

I sat a test a few weeks later on the whole topic of depression, it was about 3 pages long, took about an hour to complete. A whole one page was devoted to the effects of women's problems on depression and didn't even mention testosterone. What the hell is going on here?

Another thing that just popped into my head came from the Psychopathology module that was completed before Depression. And no matter what kind of schizophrenia, the definition always ended with, "It is diagnosed more in males than females."

What do you think?

The referrence to testosterone is just an addendum unless they spend the whole time just discussing "women only" conditions which ofcourse is the end aim of all educational systems these days.

What's better than spending your entire days in college or university just discussing the world of the priviledged princess...

Alternatives...

Pulling out your toenail with pliers..
Repeatedly hitting your head with a ball pein hammer...
Walking over broken glass..

What's "funny" is that once you start to bring up stats showing that much more men commit suicide than women (not that depression is the only reason for commiting suicide, but still), the response you get is usually the same ol' women-are-just-better crap, something like: "well, that's because women have better coping mechanisms" or something like that.

Of course, when it's time to address the reasons and provide some funding, women again turn to the most-hardest-hit-by-everything.

Anyway, see this also (antimisandry thread).

I have been in actual attendance when someone was given an injection of sex hormones...in fact on the second instance it was me that administered the shot.

The first instance was a man who had an "orchidectomy"as a result of testecular cancer....about ten minutes after the shot the fellow displayed some agitation and iritability, but nothing he could not ride out or contain.

The other instsnce was a fellow undergoing hormone therapy in preparation for a sex change...he already looked like his sister.

Within two minutes of the shot his behaviour could only be described as "hysterical".....when I remarked about this a drag queen said;

"Did you think what they say about female hormones isn't so?"

(I was photographing a documentary on transgenderism)

Depression is a normal part of the human experience...far too much is made of it...it is sort of like rainy drizzly weather....it eventually goes away.