Feb
06
Posted by Pauline,
Twice as many women as men are acknowledged as suffering from depression, although it has been argued that this may be because men tend to hide their feelings and emotions from others and will suffer in silence. However, statistics aside, there is one category of depression which men are spared, although its effects will often have real consequences for the whole family, and therefore the husband or partner. The maelstrom of hormonal activity which is triggered in a woman’s body following childbirth, has and will no doubt continue to be the subject of clinical research for as long as medicine is practiced, but the fact remains that postnatal depression is very real and can be catastrophic.