The Continuing Education Unit, in cooperation with the Women’s Empowerment Unit and the Ibn Sina Unit at the College of Pharmacy, held a lecture entitled (Depression in Women) delivered by the lecturer Shaima Luay Abdul Hadi, a professor at the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Branch. It is noteworthy that depression is a common disease nowadays because of the rapid pace of life and its many requirements and the pressures that a person suffers in general in his daily life. It is a mood disorder that causes persistent feelings of sadness, loss of pleasure, interest in habitual things, and lack of concentration. It may be accompanied by guilt, insignificance, and low self-esteem. The disease affects feelings, thinking, and behaviors, causing many emotional and physical problems, which in turn affect the performance of daily activities.
In particular, women were addressed and the pressures they suffer from make them more vulnerable to depression, which affects every aspect of their lives, including their physical health, social, and employment. They are further complicated by factors such as reproductive hormones, social pressures, and a unique female response to stress. The lecture included mentioning the causes, factors and symptoms, as well as the types of depression in women, then psychological treatment and medications, as well as the importance of support by family, relatives and husband, with the importance of starting self-treatment through positive thinking, getting out of isolation, focusing on strengths and the desire to change to reach a happy life.