Women Tend To Suffer More Post Break-Up, Study

Break-up? Separation? Pain? Women, say scientists, feel all this and more, according to dailymail.

Even anger, anxiety and obesity haunts them more than men, say scientists. However, they also become "less destructive", looking at friends and family for support, in order to move ahead in life.

On the other hand, men are made of a different kind of material. They never reach the point of "moving on" but just "make peace with being single again". However, it leaves scars of resentment for years.

US researchers explain that biological differences help women become aware that they have "more to lose" if they are with the wrong person---more so if they want to begin a family. However, they recover faster as they become more open to their feelings.

Scientists selected 5,705 people in 96 countries, asking them to rank the "pain of a break-up on a scale of zero to ten", with zero on the "no effect" and ten in the "unbearable" grade.

The average rank for women was 6.84 compared to 6.58 for men. Even physically, their average was 4.21 versus 3.75 for men.

Women also explained that they underwent greater "anger, anxiety and fear", even as men experienced more depression and lack of focus.

More women tended to go through panic attacks and insomnia, tending to eat more in order to recover, and putting on more weight.

However, Craig Morris, Professor of anthropology at Binghamton University in New York as well as lead author, explained that their "social support network" was like a bulwark for them.

Professor Morris, whose article was published in 'Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences', said that men tend to be more "self-destructive" and never admit that they have overcome their depression. He said: "This can last for months or years. Then they just sort of 'move on', usually via another relationship."