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INTERESTING STATISTICS ABOUT WOMEN
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• 43% of women report a sexual dysfunction. (JAMA 1999)
  
• 1/3 of women report low libido. (JAMA 1999)
  
• 50% of marriages end in divorce. (Census Bureau, www.divorcereform.org/rates.html)
  
• 3000 couples get divorced each day. (CDC)
  
• Infidelity estimates in US range from 20-50% (Lampe, P.E. (Ed). Adultery
  in the United States: Close encounters of the Sixth (or Seventh) kind.
  Buffalo: Prometheus Books 1987.
  
• One estimate rates the % of Americans who would have an affair in their
  lifetime to be as high as 70% (Marriage and Divorce Today, June 1, 1987,
  cited in Fisher, Helen E. Anatomy of Love: The Natural history of monogamy,
  adultery, and divorce.
  New York:
  WW Norton and Company, Inc., 1992, p. 86.
  
• Depression affects twice as many women as men
  
• 1/7of women will suffer depression in their lifetime (www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm)
  
• 73% of all psychiatric medications, including antidepressants, are
  prescribed to females (American Psychological Association)
  
• 43 million women take antidepressant medications (Zestra Web site)
  
• 62% of American women are overweight (CDC, www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/women.htm)
  
• 4 million American women can be classified as problem drinkers (National
  Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism www.nyu.edu/odae/womenfact.html)
  
• 1/3 Americans are sleep deprived (sleep 6 or less hours per day) (archives
  of internal medicine, www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/story.php?article_id=609)

Dearest

Whew! These are discouraging statistics.

Women really do still have the brunt of care for the young and the old, and are expected to do so very much for others while trying to maintain some small piece of who they are INSIDE. No wonder they are depressed and overeating and not sleeping!

Throw in the hormonal ups and downs, and Holey Moley!

This is why I thank God EVERY SINGLE DAY for Power-Surge!!!

Thank you thank you, DEAREST Dearest!!!!




Jacquie

If 63% of females are overweight, maybe the government charts are WRONG!

It's because we deal with MEN! LMAO!! No wonder we're depressed, over weight alcoholics who want to cheat!!!

Remember that women who report a low sex drive might just be bored with what they're driving.

Geez. Maybe the figures are skewed. What percentage of women who quit smoking compared to men, use an anti-depressant ie Zyban, Nortriptylene to achieve their goal? What percentage of women going through meno are on an anti-depressant to control hot flashes, ie Effexor or Welbutrin? Did the study differentiate between need, or just lump everyone on the drug into the class called depressed.

I just saw my doctor to request a referral to a specialist. He agreed, but wondered, "What do you have against anti-depressants?" siiiiiiigh I'm not depressed. I'm frustrated.

Renewal Reb: My thought exactly on govt weight estimates

And here is another statistic regarding to women, as quoted by one of my nursing professors:

"70% of women who read fashion magazines are depressed AS HELL by what they see."

LOL! That lecture woke us all up. We'd never heard our prof speak in such passionate terms before.

Personally, I gave up reading fashion magazines years ago. Got sick of being made to feel guilty for not looking like a walking stick.I literally STARVED myself, worked out like a fiend, and even resorted to abusing laxatives for years trying to live up to that impossible standard, because I thought if I did so I would finally please my husband and get his attention. Yeah, right. His attention problems had nothing to do with how I looked, even though he liked to claim that was the reason.

My son got a real lesson in airbrushing the other day. He had the show "Reba" playing on one tv, and simultaneously a video came on tv with Reba singing with someone else on MTV on the tv in his room. He said "Mom, look-she doesn't even look like the same woman!" I said "That's because everything on MTV is digitally remastered. All those 'perfect' girls you see aren't perfect-they're just airbrushed. And the sad part is, guys see this day in and day out, and expect their girlfriends/wives to look the same, and dump them if they don't."

He didn't say anything, but I could hear the wheels turning in his head.