Postpartum depression affects the whole family. The new mom’s distress is often disorienting to her partner – he may sense that she needs support but feel at a loss as to how to offer it. Fathers also frequently report a reduced capacity for providing meaningful help due to their own struggles in the early postpartum…
Men's Mental Health
Men face many challenges to their mental health in the 21st century. Gender roles have been changing and men are increasingly feeling empowered to stake their own definitions of masculinity, make room for experience of emotions that have in previous generations been stifled, and integrate the focus on emotional wellbeing into a broader definition of health.