You have to ask the question, why do women get depressed more than men? There are things that make us

more vulnerable to getting depressed, like perhaps having a family history of depression.

Hormones can have an impact. Life events are the things that trigger off depression. And women

are very often the people who hold families together and look after the whole kind of fabric of the world, I think, in many ways.

For many women, it's depression and depression.

Linda Gask spent over 30 years working as a psychiatrist in the UK, both personally and professionally she has seen how mental health care in the UK

is seriously failing women. I'm Liz Earle and this is the Lizelle well-being show, the podcast,

helping us all have a better second half. Let's get more out of life as we age, live well, age well. And I am on such a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. And of course, that has to include our mental health too. Now, during their adult years, one in five women in the UK, compared to one in eight men,

experience a common mental health problem, a common one, anxiety and or depression, low mood.

And I've certainly seen that escalating numbers around me with my growing social media on

Instagram, for example, there's so much talk about anxiety,

low mood, particularly relating to things like hormones. And we have to ask why so many women

are affected perhaps in later life especially. Now, retired Linda Gask is a senior and respected

professor of primary care psychiatry at the University of Manchester

and has been an advisor to the World Health Organization. She's a lifelong feminist and has seen

that often when a woman complains about her stress or mental anguish, she's told she's out of her

mind. So she's written a book with that very name. So do you have an experience of being written off as crazy or beyond help? Or maybe just an annoying time-waster, a bit bossy, a bit demanding? Do you feel that you understand whether you're more in need of a talking therapy or maybe medication.

And how do menopausal symptoms get tangled up with our mental health too?

Well, by the end of this conversation, I hope it's very clear to you that if you felt a lack of support for your mental well-being,

you are not going out of your mind.

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