Very good question! Definitely plays a part, but hard to know for sure considering it’s hard to measure what people aren’t reporting! Perhaps surveys examining rates of underreporting (eg if this happened, how likely would you be to tell someone etc) could help provide a more realistic number, unfortunately not sure how much research there is into this myself
seems like its 10%W compared to 4%M (quick google), how do we know who has PTSD? questionnaires like the BDI but for PTSD? it's also believed that women are more prone to get depression, however, I was thinking eg. ADHD has been under diagnosed in women cuz it shows itself differently, what if PTSD and eg. mens problems shows more in the form of eg alcohol use disorder, men has about 2x higher risk of alcohol use disorder. what about mens looong history of combat experience? especially thousands of years ago, you maybe mentioned it but maybe not specifically (the world is more peaceful than ever right around now.)
Thanks for the interesting points! In research you can use self report measures like the international trauma Questionnaire, but more specific clinical semi structured interviews are more reliable :) ptsd has a lot stricter criteria then other disorders (in terms of the type of symptoms you should present with as well as the criteria for trauma experienced), although definitely shows itself differently depending on gender, the prevalence of Comirbid substance abuse disorder and alcoholism are very high in those with PTSD, so probably likely for these individuals to already have a PTSD diagnoses too (although that’s my assumption), thousands of years ago we didn’t know anything about mental health to the degree we do now, so probably will never know the true prevalence of PTSD across time! Definitely looks like a higher prevalence now because we screen it more and include more traumas rather then just combat like wr used to, but also generally men disclose mental health problems less and are less likely to seek help so there are a lot of factors at play, hope this helps a bit x
Interesting topic. I like that you don't pretend that the data is more conclusive than it is.
Thank you, I think there are enough videos out there with personal interpretations, so I try to be as unbiased and research based as possible :)
*Why are women more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD?
Why are men less likely to seek help for PTSD?
Very interesting! To what extent do you think this has to do with men underreporting their symptoms due to societal norms etc?
Very good question! Definitely plays a part, but hard to know for sure considering it’s hard to measure what people aren’t reporting! Perhaps surveys examining rates of underreporting (eg if this happened, how likely would you be to tell someone etc) could help provide a more realistic number, unfortunately not sure how much research there is into this myself
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Is there any device/method to measure the arousal level of sympathetic/parasympathetic?
seems like its 10%W compared to 4%M (quick google), how do we know who has PTSD? questionnaires like the BDI but for PTSD? it's also believed that women are more prone to get depression, however, I was thinking eg. ADHD has been under diagnosed in women cuz it shows itself differently, what if PTSD and eg. mens problems shows more in the form of eg alcohol use disorder, men has about 2x higher risk of alcohol use disorder.
what about mens looong history of combat experience? especially thousands of years ago, you maybe mentioned it but maybe not specifically (the world is more peaceful than ever right around now.)
Thanks for the interesting points! In research you can use self report measures like the international trauma Questionnaire, but more specific clinical semi structured interviews are more reliable :) ptsd has a lot stricter criteria then other disorders (in terms of the type of symptoms you should present with as well as the criteria for trauma experienced), although definitely shows itself differently depending on gender, the prevalence of Comirbid substance abuse disorder and alcoholism are very high in those with PTSD, so probably likely for these individuals to already have a PTSD diagnoses too (although that’s my assumption), thousands of years ago we didn’t know anything about mental health to the degree we do now, so probably will never know the true prevalence of PTSD across time! Definitely looks like a higher prevalence now because we screen it more and include more traumas rather then just combat like wr used to, but also generally men disclose mental health problems less and are less likely to seek help so there are a lot of factors at play, hope this helps a bit x