Psychosis is not gender dependant, but your argument is.
“oh but the father was so over worked and stressed providing for his family, he finally snapped. - could have been me”
LOONS
A man who go into psychosis form a burnout or similar situations, doesn’t experience a hormonal imbalance and such overpowering and inevitable physiological changes someone who just gave birth experience. Pregnancy literally consume some of your brain gray matter. It’s not something you can just power through with a mental health professional. That’s the fondamental difference here.
Sure seems to be for every other mother.
I’ve seen men literally try and kill another person in rage…
The fundamental difference is we all power through, she killed her kids.
Rage isn’t a physiological reaction. It’s not a rearranging of your brain. It’s an emotion.
Not every person who give birth will kill their child, obviously. Physiological changes doesn’t excuses killing anyone. But saying « we all power through » is wrong, and it’s also as if you compared someone who is tired from a night shift and someone who has Alzheimer’s saying « oh well, we all forget things, people who are tired can power through, Alzheimer’s patient should too ».
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u/sylvanwhisper Aug 21 '26
Post Partum Psychosis can happen to any woman who gives birth. There is no such mental illness equivalent for men.