Why is women’s mental health in psychiatry so overlooked?
"Women make up half the population, yet we still do not treat women's mental health as a priority." Today, women's mental health is a balance between what we know, what we ignore, and what we treat as optional. It exists…
“Women make up half the population, yet we still do not treat women’s mental health as a priority.”
Today, women’s mental health is a balance between what we know, what we ignore, and what we treat as optional. It exists in a landscape where society continues to find increasingly sophisticated ways to misunderstand it. When women speak, the world often responds with a polite, “Hmm, are you sure?”
I came to psychiatry …
Why is women’s mental health in psychiatry so overlooked?
