However, grief is an abnormal process where mourning is prolonged, delayed, or otherwise unresolved. Unresolved grief may contribute to women's higher rates of depression, anxiety and other psychological disorder.
Women are thre to four times more likely to seek professional help when a loved one dies.
Part of this difference may be due to women's less aversion to seeing therapists. Women's average reaction may be more functional in the long run than the average man's. Stoicism may have long-term or hidden consequences, but this is all speculated and ahs yet to be deomonstrated clearly. Women's increased vulnerability to grief and dysfunction after a loved one's death is mostly social. Women define themselves more in terms of their relationships with others.