{"id":88887,"date":"2025-05-04T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88887"},"modified":"2025-05-03T09:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:32:58","slug":"qotd-women-and-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/qotd-women-and-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Women and depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Why wouldn&#8217;t powerlessness cause depression in women too?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, in a backwards sort of way it actually does. <\/p>\n<p>The difference is this: women feel powerful when they are loved, and powerless when they are not, because their instinct wiring tells them that safety lies in being able to form social coalitions and attract a strong mate. <\/p>\n<p>Women, in general (there are always outlier exceptions) don&#8217;t get major antidepressive help from just going outside and chopping up a cord of firewood, the way men do. Because the woman&#8217;s game is to give a man a good reason to chop firewood for her.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s when she can&#8217;t do *that* that she feels powerless.<\/p>\n<p>ESR, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esrtweet\/status\/1787614418500460863\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>, 2024-05-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t powerlessness cause depression in women too? Well, in a backwards sort of way it actually does. The difference is this: women feel powerful when they are loved, and powerless when they are not, because their instinct wiring tells them that safety lies in being able to form social coalitions and attract a strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[141,1235,906,139,43],"class_list":["post-88887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-depression","tag-esr","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95430,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88887\/revisions\/95430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}