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Men and women can experience depression in different ways, and although they also share many common signs and symptoms, a better understanding of the differences may help those with depression, researchers say.

“We have known about sex differences for years when it comes to depression, and they are absolutely essential to understanding the illness,” said Jill Goldstein, director of research at the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

In one of the largest depression-related differences between the sexes, women have about twice the risk of developing the condition as men, Goldstein said. This results in part from biological reasons, such as hormones and genes that get disrupted when brain regions are developing in the male and female fetus, she said.

These biological changes during fetal development lay the groundwork that creates a vulnerability to mood disorders, such as depression, she said.

In addition, women tend to be more tuned into their emotions, and better able to describe them when depressed, Goldstein said. Men might not recognize their symptoms like depression, perhaps denying or hiding their unhappiness, so the illness might get overlooked in men until it becomes more severe.

Here are seven ways that depression may look different in men and women.

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And, it’s so good researchers are finally telling the truth about such…