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and boys' rates stay the same or go down. And by the time they're eighteen
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or twenty you get almost a two-to-one ratio of depressed girls to depressed boys
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And then this is true for the rest of the adult age span.
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There are lots of hypotheses about this, why it's true.
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There are biological hypotheses that have to do with hormones.
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There are sociological hypotheses that have to do
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with the kinds of stress, and particularly abuse,
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in girls' lives relative to boys'. We don't know exactly why.
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It's probably a lot of these things coming together
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that make this huge two-to-one ratio true.
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So, let's talk a little bit about the major theories
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and treatments for the mood disorders.