Dads at Risk for Post-Partum Depression
March 17th, 2011
A startling new study reports that nearly 40 percent of depressed fathers admitted to spanking their one-year old children, triple the number of fathers who weren’t depressed. While postpartum depression is more prevalent in women, affecting nearly 25 percent of women after childbirth, close to 7 percent of the men in this study has suffered a recent episode of major depression, some likely due to postpartum issues. Lead author Dr. Neal Davis describes this as the most comprehensive study of its kind. He believes in its relevancy because depression in fathers is often linked to unemployment and employment stress could be exacerbating male postpartum and early fatherhood emotions.
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The birth of a child is no small responsibility for a father. It brings in a lot of joy but also newer responsibilities and a whole lot of pressure due to those responsibilities. Coping with them in the long run is one thing but the immediate reaction is another thing.
imagine all the nervousness,expectations from the wife before,during and after child-birth all together and then add a lack of sex for months together all at once and it is a perfect recipe for depression or other issues.
Even new dads face depression?! Wow that’s something I’ve heard of the very first time and is something that sounds of gender equality and no fair treatment to any gender.
My husband went through a horrible bout of depression after the birth of our first child. I honestly think that although he was happy to be a dad he was also sad because he knew that it was the loss of that relationship that the two of us had and would not be able to have back that freedom for a long time. He actually had to see a therapist who was very helpful but he was in a pretty bad funk for a while, and not a lot of help of helping me when I needed it!
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