This just reeks of “what about the menz!” I’m not saying that the anxiety isn’t real. I know that it is, I know that it is a very serious condition, and I am glad that he is getting help for it. I commend him for it, because a lot of men in this culture do not admit that they need help. That said,I have seen this type…

I hear you. It feels similar to why non-white people in America get annoyed [to put it lightly] when white people cry reverse racism. Minority groups can ABSOLUTELY be racist toward white people - but the larger implications aren’t quite the same. So yeah, no one is denying that men experience negative feelings…

I agree with you. We can label things however we want to label them, but I do think calling this postpartum disregards the long studied, long proven massive hormonal and physical factors that contribute to actual postpartum disorder in women.

::this:: Men generally do a lot less of the life change stuff prior to having kids than do women. I feel like a lot of the trapped / prison stuff comes from the sudden and overwhelming realization that your life is no longer your own. As other have said, calling this postpartum feels a bit like co-opting something…

He’ll feel alot better once the stitches come out and the bleeding stops.

As someone who’s been pregnant it makes me want to Hulk-smash every man who says “we’re pregnant”. You are both having a baby, but SHE’S the only one who is pregnant

Maybe “newborn parental depression”.

It bugs me a bit too. I assume it is well meant- he identifies the family unit as we...but one of the people can get up and walk to the store and have a cup of coffee, a walk in the park, whatever- and take a break from the pregnancy. Fifteen minutes off, say. And one person cannot. The person who is actually…

It’s wrong on just plain technical grounds - even postpartum depression in a mother is only considered such within four months of the birth.

HST = GOAT

The MEDICAL definition of postpartum is

Ok, because you’re extremely fucking stupid and want to keep going: The MEDICAL definition of postpartum is

Prediction: this shit all ends with Jared divorcing #Complicit and flipping on all of them.

He started having anxiety over a year after delivery, directly after his mother/in law was badly injured in a hit and run while walking the baby.

I don’t click on WebMD links. I always end up thinking I have cancer.

Did you read the fucking article? Because it sure doesn’t seem like you did and you just want to argue poorly.

HIDE THE AIRPORTS!

He just got on a plane. CHANGE THE LOCKS!!!

Yeah, this is bog standard anxiety, and calling it postpartum does a real disservice to women who actually have postpartum.

The “we are/were pregnant” thing makes me a bit nauseated.