Clown smiles: depression and exhaustion in women
Women today are subjected to high doses of daily stress and to psychophysical pressures that come from many fronts: family, work, children, home management.
Often it is not easy to pass through everything, just as often it is difficult to be able to admit that you are tired, exhausted, that you need help; maybe because you don't think you have alternatives to move forward.
Today's society wants strong, fit, always cheerful and smiling women on social networks, holding a pair of sneakers and in the other a pair of twelve heels, mothers, wives and perfect career women .
The level and the threshold of attention are therefore elevated by the woman herself, who stratifies the armor: "I am destroyed, but I am not yet so tired, I can also do this to finish"; "I'm not going to run tonight, I have to finish cleaning"; "The hairdresser can wait again"; "the yoga lesson I refer you to next week".
Such phrases should make you think. Don't overestimate women, there is a limit to everything and you don't have to go there, because it may not even be a remedy anymore.
We listen to the signals of the body
Attention, the alarm bell sounds sooner or later and must be listened to. To say it is also the most recent data and statistics that confirm that physical risks are a factor more than ever real and around the corner.
Cardiovascular diseases cause death for 55% of women, against 43% of men; depression affects the fairer sex to a greater extent and stress and depression are increasingly strong and emerging risk factors, triggering cardiovascular diseases. Hypertension, smoking, diabetes, overweight, age.
But also anxiety, depression and chronic stress, as shown by a study published by Lancet, are factors that increase the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke as well as smoking and high blood pressure.
Another study conducted in New Zealand and published by the prestigious Heart magazine has even shown that the most stressed cardiac patients have four times the probability of dying from cardiac causes and almost three times more for any cause than those who are not stressed.
First congress on women's health
To take stock of women's health with a specific focus on gender medicine was the 1st National Wave Congress "Women's Health - Female Pathologies of Greater Impact: from Specialist to Multidisciplinary Approach" which, opened in Milan in In recent days, it places particular emphasis on the interactions between various pathologies both at a young age and at a later age.
What emerges is therefore a need for greater awareness about the knowledge and awareness of one's cardiological risk ; furthermore, the need to introduce screening campaigns for women around the age of 25 is also being leveraged.
As informed to Onda ( National Observatory on Women's Health ) Sen. Emilia De Biasi, President of the Hygiene and Health Commission, Senate of the Republic, concludes:
"I would like people to talk about women's health when we talk about work, the work environment, the family dimension, the effort that women make to keep everything together, forgetting maybe, at some point, themselves. One lives more, but with a thousand ailments. A health that has at heart the point of view of women, the body of women and the mind of women is a great goal of civilization ”.
