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When something goes wrong in a girl’s world, she usually blames herself. (Boys are much more likely to blame someone else, such as Mom. Sorry, moms.)
Sissy Goff • Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World
Externality is associated with depression, suicide, and anxiety. Another theme is that Internality can act as a shield against the negative impact of both depression and anxiety.
Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance
for women who have been assaulted, Externality is associated with severe psychopathological reactions. Women who generalize their Externality in this manner seem to be changing their basic assumptions about the fairness and safety in the world in general.
Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance
A pessimistic explanatory style is at the core of depressed thinking.
Martin E.P. Seligman • Learned Optimism
The rate of self-harm for these young adolescent girls nearly tripled from 2010 to 2020. The rate for older girls (ages 15–19) doubled, while the rate for women over 24 actually went down during that time (see online supplement).[21] So whatever happened in the early 2010s, it hit preteen and young teen girls harder than any other group.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Modern feminist sensibility is based on cognitive distortions depressed people have
What I once believed thanks to feminism and how it maps to cognitive distortions (yes, these messages are in the zeitgeist)
Others are responsible for my feelings: emotional reasoning and mind-reading.
I have no control over what happens to me: fortune telling,
when a woman is low in estrogen she is more vulnerable to traumas, while high levels of estrogen can partially protect a woman from emotional disturbances.
Mindy Pelz • Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones
Before Ellis and Beck spun their theories, it was dogma that all depression was manic-depressive illness.