Breaking the Silence: Exploring the Landscape of Mental Illness

 Breaking the Silence: Exploring the Landscape of      

 Mental Illness

        Mental health impairments range from mild disorders to serious illnesses. When it comes to psychological stress and crises, it is important to communicate early. If you feel constantly overwhelmed or already have serious symptoms of mental illness, you should seek professional help. This is not a sign of weakness, because anyone can get sick and mental illnesses are just as serious as physical illnesses.

        In the women's health portal you will find quality-assured and reliable information on the most common mental illnesses among women.

        Many mental illnesses affect women more often than men. In Germany, for example, people suffer within a year.

       Various mental disorders can also occur in connection with one another. The most common comorbid mental illnesses with depression include, for example, anxiety disorders. Mental disorders often occur as a concomitant symptom of another physical illness such as coronary heart disease or diabetes mellitus (comorbid disorder).

        In addition, women are more likely than men to try to compensate for stress with sleeping pills and sedatives and therefore have an increased risk of becoming dependent.

- Anxiety disorders

        Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness among women. For those affected, the fear develops its own dynamic and is not appropriate to reality. However, the disorder is easily treatable.

- Burnout syndrome

        People with burnout syndrome often suffer from declining work performance, health problems and a loss of quality of life. If the disease is still in its early stages, individual work-life balance measures can help.

- Depression

        In contrast to short-term periods of sadness, which are part of everyone's normal existence, depression does not go away on its own. Depression should therefore always be treated professionally.

- Somatoform disorder

        Somatoform disorders are mental illnesses in which those affected complain of physical complaints for which there is no adequate medical explanation. If you have mild symptoms, your family doctor can be the first point of contact.

- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

        Those affected suffer from recurring thoughts and impulses that are practically impossible to suppress. Sometimes it's difficult to diagnose a disease.. However, obsessive-compulsive disorder can be easily treated with a combination of behavioral therapy and medication.