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Many new fathers experience post-natal depression, yet most cases go undetected and untreated, experts warn.
One in 10 new fathers may have the baby blues, US researchers believe – based on their trawl of medical literature.

Some very interesting news of late regarding male post-natal depression…

If you know me well, I’m not necessarily the kind of person that is easily persuaded or convinced by the term, “depression”.  Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying here – I agree that people can be depressed, but I also believe that it has been over-diagnosed by medical practitioners across North America.  In my opinion, there are so many things that one must do before turning to medications because once you start taking prescription mood altering medications, it’s very hard to get off of them – I’ve seen way too many clients who found this out the hard way.

So, if you originally thought that I was going to agree to male post-natal depression as a condition requiring clinical diagnosis, you’re wrong.  I have a feeling that it’s just a way for pharmaceutical companies to start marketing medications to men.  Heck, if these US researchers are correct, 10% of all new dads could be taking a new drug!  Now THAT”S a lot of money in the pockets of big pharma (and their investors).