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Studies show that JZ saying “I don’t have stress, it’s a white persons disease.” is probably wrong

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Zuma Stress
I don’t have stress, it’s a white persons disease.

When people talk about the black-white health gap, they usually mean that black people have worse health outcomes than white people. And generally, that’s true. On basically every measure, from childbirth to hypertension to HIV transmission rates, the black community fares worse.

But there’s one area where this gap doesn’t hold up: men’s mental health. White men are more likely to face depression associated with stressful life events than black men or women of any race, according to a 2015 published USA study in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

in the study white men reported having fewer stressful life events than black men. These events were defined as poor health, financial stress, issues with employment, marital or family problems, problematic gambling behavior, police harassment and being the victim of a crime or discrimination.

“White men were experiencing the least stress in their lives,” lead study author Dr. Shervin Assari, a research investigator at the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. “They don’t get a lot of it and they are not used to it, so they are more prone to its harmful effects.”

The same study found that black women in US have the highest amount of stress but have the same susceptibility to depression as white women.

The study by Michigan University included around 6,000 adults from around the United States of America.

Overall, it found women had more exposure to stress than men, and black people had more stressful events in their life than white people.

See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/mens-mental-health/ for more info.

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.