After analyzing the data collected by the Health. com, New South Wales University researchers, declared that all the women who suffered many physical assaults such as rape, stalking and intimate-partner violence they suffered from mental disorders in their later lives. American Medical Association journal made the study public.

The researchers further claimed that while tracking the data, they found that approximately 27% of the women from the age group of 16-85 admitted that these physical stabbings increased the mental disorder’s risk.

On the other hand, the data also revealed the fact that these sexual harassments increased the risk of bipolar chaos by 57%, which included post-traumatic stress, substance abuse and nervousness, which were associated with panic obsessive and compulsive disorders, while all the 89% of the victims who experienced almost 3 of the listed abuses, highly increased their mental depression levels.

In the mean time, showing his concern about the issue, Susan Rees, the lead author of the study and a senior research fellow in psychiatry, in the University, asserted that the study had raised numerous concerns.

He added, “Based on other studies, we expected there to be a correlation and an association, but the strength of it was particularly concerning”.