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Hannah Gadsby

Gender and Mental health: The need for a wider lens

August 9, 2018December 16, 2018 / Julia Brown / 1 Comment

As the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby powerfully put it, it would help if we didn’t start by seeing females and males as being from different planets. Experiences of violence and the broader social receptiveness to vulnerability, along with the manifestation of mental disorders and treatment, are influenced - but not entirely determined by gender.

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