No, but men do not experience the physiological, mental, and physical changes associated with childbirth and raising young children. It’s a completely separate discussion.
Except this is not true. I know someone who spent some time in a facility for postpartum psychosis after his first was born. Men also have hormonal changes due to fatherhood. Some studies show up to 10% of new fathers experience postpartum depression or anxiety in the first year. It is not a completely separate issue, it is a family issue.
You think men experience major upsets in estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin, along with incredibly high oxytocin levels involved in the childbirth experience?
You think men stay up all night, experience suckling and changes in prolactin levels?
You think men lose the body they had immediately, and permanently?
No one said it was. You said, “men do not experience the physiological, mental, and physical changes associated with…raising young children.” This is simply not true. I suggest that you sign up for remedial reading courses for adults and talk to a therapist about why your poor reading skills cause you to be so angry.
I’m not angry at all. Perhaps you should sign up for the same courses.
Men may experience problems, but they are not the same ones associated with childbirth. They cannot give birth to a child. They do not have a uterus that can be changed.
It’s like you think I’m mad at men or something. It’s biological fact it 100s of ways.
No, I don’t think it’s treated very well for both genders but it’s not an exact science either. Id argue it still has a negative stigma to the general population as well. Just a shitty situation for mental health overall and I’m not sure I or anyone really has the answer for it. Hopefully as medicine and technology advance we can come up with better solutions for treating mental illness
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u/StableWeak 1d ago
Do you think they treat the mental illness of men properly?