Women more likely to suffer from stress-related mental disorders

WOMEN are four times more likely than men to suffer from stress-related mental health disorders and could wait for more than 10 years before getting a diagnosis.

Professor Jim Lucey, consultant psychiatrist and medical director of St Patrick’s University said anxiety disorders are the commonest mental health problems presenting to general practice and that people are “worrying themselves sick and becoming ill with anxiety”.

Prof Lucey said he wanted to make people, especially women, aware of anxiety disorders so they could get help in time.