Article: Baby Boomer Women - A Depressed Generation; Beneath the Surface of Achievement and Power, an Epidemic of Depression.

Lifestyle Editors/Feature Editors

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003

Depressed? Odds are, you're a woman. Odds are, you're in midlife.

Women suffer depression twice as often as men throughout their lives. In midlife, hormonal changes and life stresses, typical triggers for depression, come to a peak.

"This is not what we expected," says Amy Lynch, publisher of OurSelves, a new publication for Baby Boomer women. "We are the generation that had all sorts of options. We went to college in huge numbers. Career doors opened for us. You'd expect us to be on top of the world in midlife--but we're not."

On the contrary, ...

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