How Does Divorce Affect Mental Health?

In many relationships, divorce is seen as survival for one or both parties, for several different reasons that lead the parties to not want to continue.

A Danish study found that a quick divorce has profound negative effects on the mental and physical health of women compared to men.
The researchers found that the mental and physical health of divorced women who had undergone this study had dramatically deteriorated, and they noted that understanding the effects of separation can help psychologists find ways for divorced women to get away from each other. get back on their feet and avoid long-term repercussions.

Professor Geert Hald of the University of Copenhagen said: “We were able to study divorced women who obtained the so-called immediate divorce in Denmark, which is decided in a very short period of time not exceeding five days.”

Professor Hald and his team obtained data from 1,856 recently divorced women, and a questionnaire was conducted on the background, health and timing of their divorce, and found that the divorce had caused them psychological and physical harm.

Dr Surin Sander, a research associate in the study, said: “The mental and physical health of divorced women who got a quick divorce was much worse compared to women who got a slow divorce.
Unlike the situation women experience after divorce, researchers have found that men have better mental health after divorce, according to what was reported in the British newspaper The Daily Mail.