Is There Really Such a Thing As Postnatal Depression in Men? That Male Postnatal Depression Even Exists. [Eire Region]

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For 36-year-old Mark Bruton-Young, whether or not men can suffer from Fpostnatal depression is a moot point. In 2009, his six-month- old daughter Harriet was found dead in her cot. On Mark's computer were hundreds of Google searches on cot death and ways of killing a baby. He was said to have blamed Harriet for problems in his marriage to fellow architect Clare, and was seeing a counsellor for postnatal depression. Postmortems failed to establish how Harriet died, and last month Mark was acquitted of his baby's murder; Clare stood by him through the two-week trial.

More than two men in 10 can succumb to the baby blues, according to a recent study, with the critical time being three to six months after the birth, when extreme tiredness takes its toll, the responsibility of having a child to provide for hits home, and when a new father may also find himself supporting a partner with postnatal depression.

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Is There Really Such a Thing As Postnatal Depression in Men? That Male Postnatal Depression Even Exists. [Eire Region]

While harming a child is an extreme and rare response, new fathers may be overwhelmed by varying degrees of dark thoughts more often than we realise. Sitting in his office last summer, 'Dadgoingmad' logged on to an internet forum and wrote, 'I've never had thoughts like the ones I've been having since...

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