[[alternative]]The process of illness and recovery from depression in women

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to understand the process of illness and recovery from depression in women, the factors associated with and the roles that society and culture played in the process. The co-researchers were invited from female patients who have been diagnosed major depression by psychiatrist and now have recovery or improvement from depression. Qualitative in-depth interview was conducted to collect three co-researchers description of their experience about the process of illness and recovery from depression. Because of the consideration of limited time, researcher analyzed the data of two co-researchers only. The interview data was transcribed and analyzed carefully. Then the life stories were written based on the analyzed data. Afterwards, two life stories were compared and the following finding were discussed: 1. The risk factors about women' depression are affected by socialculture. For examples gender discrimination, gender stereotype education to women, the hopes lose by social changes, significant loss. 2. The experiences of Women's depression differed by the ages and socialculture context associated with. 3. Factors that helping women's recovery from depression were: the positive characters of personality, the power and decision of surviving, accept the fact and give up the expectation that can't carry out, the positive changes of self, face the life with positive attitude, finding the way for life, adjustment of loss, social support, seeking helping from medicine. Based on the above findings, suggestions were presented.