Abstract
A Feminist Phenomenological Description of Depression in Low-income South African Women
Highlights
Major depressive disorder is the single most commonly occurring mood disorder in the world [1,2]
While in our analysis the emphasis was on how ten individual women experienced depression, in this paper we focus on the how the experiences of participants were convergent
Given the fact that we found that many participants seemed to be ashamed about their emotional distress, it may be that an inability for, or social suppression of verbal emotional reaction has a direct effect on the production of physical symptoms [54,55]
Summary
Major depressive disorder is the single most commonly occurring mood disorder in the world [1,2]. The fact that there is a twofold greater prevalence of depressive illnesses in women than in men is one of the most widely documented findings in psychiatric epidemiology [8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. This gender difference is typical of South African populations too [11,15,16,17,18]. In the South African context this means that lowincome, coloured, blackand Indian mothers are at risk for developing depression [29]
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