... Wut? Seriously? I was looking up reasons for depression in MEN and apparently pregnancy is one of the leading causes.

NicheGirl · 2019-05-02T18:27:44+00:00

It could be referral to a partner or lover getting pregnant tbf, or applicable to transmen.

throwaway85807566595 · 2019-05-02T19:31:31+00:00

I was a bit anxious about money when my wife was pregnant with my daughter. It makes sense. Kids are expensive and the provider role defaults to the dad.

I alternated between very angry, very anxious, and very depressed when my wife was pregnant with my son. She became mentally ill and violently sexually assaulted me in the middle of the night when I had a stomach bug to get pregnant the 2nd time. There was no support for raped males that had a kid as a result a decade ago and there is extremely little today.

_ReaverBreeder_ · 2019-05-02T18:27:39+00:00

I mean, I get that they are probably referring to the man's partner being pregnant, but that is not apparent at all.

dontpet · 2019-05-03T02:56:44+00:00

Post natal depression in men is a thing. They used to think pnd for women was just whining, then it became wholly a biological thing, but now they say it is largely caused by change in social circumstances.

I suspect sleep deprivation and breast feeding or the major contributors.

The info I've seen says men experience and at half the rate of women, and it is tied to their partner in many cases.

2019-05-03T08:47:27+00:00

It's a major life changer for men.

You'll have to stop living life for yourself, and get in a position where you can provide $1000+ for the next 300 months.

That's a crushing blow for many young free spirits.

2019-05-04T03:13:33+00:00

I don't see why that's strange. Pregnancy is something men have absolutely no control over, and riddles them with heavy responsibilities. It makes perfect sense for it to be a cause for anxiety in men.

antifeminist3 · 2019-05-07T05:30:14+00:00

Drug and alcohol use can be a symptom of depression in men. The article vaguely implies it is a risk factor that may cause it. No.

Outbursts of anger have also been found by psychiatrists to be a symptoms in men, and this symptom is often misinterpreted, especially in the modern anti-male environment.

tenchineuro · 2019-05-03T19:26:29+00:00

The list is not ranked, so it's not clear that it's a leading cause.

But consider what happens before and after the birth of the child, the dad is persona non-grata, no one cares if he lives or dies and he probably loses the sole point of emotional support and personal contact that he has. And he gets to work himself to death in the process. Some women decide that they don't want to have sex anymore after having a child, but even in ideal conditions his sex like is going to be a shadow of what it might potentially have been before (she may have used sex to get what she wanted before, who can say).

I'm sure that most women would not understand, or even care. So I'll leave it at this.

VoxVirilis · 2019-05-02T20:09:10+00:00

Have you seen how much child support is these days??? You're damn right pregnancy and childbirth can be a cause of anxiety in men.

Lethn · 2019-05-02T18:35:09+00:00

Please post the actual source when it's for something as detailed as this, getting to be a dumb thing people are doing now.

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