I have wrote a long post, but I will try again in shorter and more clear way as this is not an academic dissociation.
Women are 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than men - one of very few "psychiatric" disorders that have some objective criteria.
I want to underline that I am not saying that other diagnoses are not real, however there is problem with nosology and evidence based practice in psychiatry - we must be wary of that when discussing studies like the Swedish one.
One of the biggest questions in criminology and critical psychiatry* is: what was first - violence or disorder.
We tend to focus on men who commit violence and the end of the spectrum - murder and physically violent rape as individuals and look for explanations that do not even touch the status quo.
Then we have media and celebrities normalising male violence in form of suicide. We listen costly about poor mental health and suicides.
We never hear that treat of suicide is a first symptom, in some EU countries suicide threat is on a police check list for DA interventions.
When this sort of manipulation doesn't work men kill women and children, if they are not successful they will kill themselves but that also happens in broader social context and has impact on women and children.
Are there male victims of female violence? Well, how we define violence?
There are plenty of men who are depressed and hurting because their IPs withdrawn from serfdom. No more cooking, cleaning, mediocre sex, life admin.
I must to say I really cannot treat claims of male victimisation by women seriously.
How often daughter murders her father? I am asking because male violence against women is broader than just in intimate relationships.
I am following femicides rates from 3 countries: UK, Germany, Poland and sometimes, when I have a good sources, Ukraine.
It is always the same, father, parter, brother, son, neighbour, a random passer by.
Men are not killed by their brothers and work mates because they felt like it at this particular moment.
This whole narrative about only few bad apples and men in constant mental health crisis is just another form of gaslighting women into subordination - don't leave, serve him because he will kill himself, he is not responsible it is ADHD.
And before someone will come to make comments regarding my life:
Yes, I was victimised by a class mate when I was an early teen, today I think he must saw his father being violent at home.
However, overall in my closes circle I have "decent men".
Given that it was my grandfather who worked part - time and was doing school runs, half terms, sick leaves etc., and his brother was stay at home dad for the first few years, and their sons followed the example some may say they are 'more than decent'.
However, they still have many traits and behaviours that are enabled by the patriarchal system. We talk about that and they listen, but it not necessarily mean they change their behaviours. and they are def more pleasant to be around than most men but not being a threat of violence in domestic setting and being a parent is not enough.
As long as we look for countless excuses why men behave how they behave instead of addressing the structural issue it will carry on. generation by generation.
*I am using this term loosely as a term for all movements within and outside institutional psychiatry which are critical about the state of affairs.