Joel Gratcyk remembers the moment he finally broke.
He pulled his car off to the side of the road, tears streaming down his face. His newfound fatherhood was supposed to be one of the happiest times of his life. Instead, he was sinking deep into a heavy sadness while his infant son sat in the back seat.
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A new University of Illinois at Chicago pilot study suggests that men should be routinely screened for postpartum depression. It’s part of a growing push to shift the dialogue surrounding men’s mental health.
It was all too much. The stress, the lack of sleep, the lingering fear that he wouldn’t be a good parent.
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