[gigi]

Originally posted by grimm@Feb 12 2005, 11:41 AM
Personally, i think the bias is the age old "women are more emotional" crap. If a woman is feeling depressed, they are "moody", while men often don't discuss such things until it becomes such a weight that they are dangerous ton themselves or each other, or lose their job, wife, family, etc... so the bias might exist because physicians tend to only see the very worse of the illness in men.

Also, the whole "hormone" thing, which is frightening when you consider these people went to medical school, and should be well aware that every chemical that exists in women, exists in one form or another in men. the Y chromosome doesnt negate the effect of such things

Agreed on all fronts......