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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2022-02-10 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] hellofriendsiminthedark 2022-02-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Jane the Virgin has an episode involving post-partum depression in men, but it's really only taken seriously by the one character, who is extremely over-the-top and thus discreditable.

It always interests me how people insist that typical post-partum depression relates to hormonal changes related to pregnancy and delivery, and thus can't be experienced by the other parent/anyone else. And yet we know that Couvade syndrome is a thing that can cause non-pregnant people to undergo those same hormonal changes. So why would the impact of those hormonal and bodily changes stop the second that the baby is delivered?