Originally Posted by Janszoon

I didn't say all mental problems were the same. I was making a connection between two specific things: depression and substance abuse. I'm not the only person to make this connection. Don't you think it's a little odd that men allegedly have a lower rate of depression than women but have much higher rates of substance abuse and suicide? Couple that with the fact that men are raised to be more reticent about discussing their feelings and fairly obvious cause and effect situation becomes apparent.


But, as I mentioned previously, bipolar disorder is equally common in men and women.