Mental Distress: Gender Aspects of Symptoms and Coping

Elizabeth Ettorre

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The article examines men's and women's views on their reasons for mental distress and on their coping styles, respectively. The data were taken from written statements given on two open-ended questions from a survey questionnaire returned by 43 men and 57 women who were self-reported, long-term users of these drugs, and from taped interviews with 10 respondents. Men's accounts (n = 25) expressed a layered theory of mental health: alcohol was a remedy to alleviate temporary strain caused by external pressure, while the use of psychotropic drugs indicated a loss of a men's assumed self-regulatory powers and autonomy. Women's accounts (n = 31) were stories of emotional pain related to their caring work in the private sphere, and psychotropics restored their capacity to carry out emotional labor.

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