The article Why Are so Many Women Depressed is interesting and it has some different viewpoints than the usual world’s view of depression. It is almost the truth.

“…As every wise person and wise culture in history has known, it is impossible to attain any happiness without conquering one’s nature. This is, of course, equally true for boys and girls, men and women. However, along with feminism arose a belief in the superiority of female nature. One result of this has been the suppressing of many male instincts — both negative and positive — along with little or no suppression of negative female instincts.”

“…So, while society continued to teach boys to control themselves, it stopped teaching girls to do so. Girls’ emotions and feelings were inherently valuable. And denying this was attacked as sexist, if not misogynistic. Consequently, the women many of these girls grew into lacked the ability to control their natures, to control their emotions, or their moods, and therefore lacked the facility to engage in the self-control necessary for happiness and the avoidance of depression.”

“…The 1960s ushered in The Age of Hubris, a time of almost unprecedented levels of conceit that one knew better than all previous generations how to order life, that almost everything inherited from the past was just plain wrong and outdated. For this hubris we have paid, and will continue to pay, a steep price. And many women, untrained in subduing darker aspects of their natures, deprived of the female joy of femininity and increasingly deprived of men (as opposed to boys), are feeling the brunt of these losses. They call it depression.”

This article stresses self-control and teaching children to have self-control. However, it leaves out the most important fact – that all the self-control in the world will not get rid of a person’s sinful, worldly self. It is impossible without the Salvation from Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.