Why Are More Women Diagnosed with Agoraphobia?
Did you know that 4 out of every 5 people diagnosed with agoraphobia are female?
That doesn’t necessarily mean that more women than men actually HAVE agoraphobia, but women are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed.
Researchers have explored some possible explanations for this phenomenon and I just posted an article that discusses them.
To read more about why more women are diagnosed with agoraphobia, look in the articles section of this website under “Causes and Development.”
My article is called “Is Agoraphobia a Women’s Disease?”
February 16th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I am wondering is it possible that women have agoraphobia more then men? Could it be that women have more daily stress’s in their lives? We give birth, raise our children, keep them safe, worry endlessly about them when they leave home, for whatever reason, school, walking home from school, social events etc, you get the point. Could it be a imbalance in the brain stem or cavitiy that is created when women are born?