Can Men Have Postpartum Depression?
About one in ten new fathers develops depression after the birth of a child. That figure, drawn from a large-scale review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is roughly double the typical depression rate in men at other points in their lives. Yet paternal postpartum depression barely registers in public health conversations, and most new fathers are never asked a single question about their mental wellbeing by a clinician. That silence has real costs. For the fathers who go unrecognized, for the partners trying to understand what is happening, and for the children who benefit most when both parents are well. So yes, men can have postpartum depression. Here is what the research actually shows. What Most People Still Get Wrong The…
