How Fathers Can Get Post-Natal Depression ; It's Not Just Women. As Many As 10 Per Cent of New Fathers Are Hit by Crippling Baby Blues - As This Man's Harrowing Testimony Reveals
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DEBBY ANDERSON remembers vividly the first night she spent alone in her home with her young son, then 20 months. Her husband Mike had just been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. It was the bleakest night of her life.
'It was 3am when I got back, and there was just me and Joe. I'd never been alone like that before, and didn't know how I'd cope.' Debby's previously happy-go-lucky husband had suffered a nervous breakdown and had tried to kill himself. 'I had no idea what would happen next or if we'd ever get him back as he was before. I knew I couldn't let myself cry or I might never stop,' says Debby, now 33.See the full content of this document
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How Fathers Can Get Post-Natal Depression ; It's Not Just Women. As Many As 10 Per Cent of New Fathers Are Hit by Crippling Baby Blues - As This Man's Harrowing Testimony Reveals
Mike, 41, a manager in the Department of Transport, was suffering from post-natal depression (PND), a condition that affects 15 per cent of new mothers but which recent U.S. studies have shown also affects men. Indeed, it's been estimated that as many as 10 per cent of new fathers suffer from it.
In women, it is linked to a hormonal imbalance after ...See the full content of this document
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