Jack, a new patient who has been married for eight years with two young sons, rails against Facebook: "Let's see: yesterday my wife:
How many bad dates do you need to go on before you find the one? The answer may be as simple as 1, 2, 3.
Anyone who’s dated knows it’s a numbers game. All it takes is one person to set you on the path towards happily ever after—or to add another bad date to the list you’re hoping to laugh at one day. But how do you know that once you do meet Mr. or Ms. Special, another, more attractive, more compatible, more everything-you’ve-ever-wanted prospect isn’t right around the corner? In a world of too many choices, dating distress often comes down to “what if” as much as it does to a lack of desirable partners. (Other names for this phenomenon include “the grass is always greener” and the ever-popular “I want what I can’t have” syndromes.)
For new dads, is there a male equivalent of PPD (aka postpartum depression)? There isn’t much research into the subject, but in talking to other counselors and therapists, I would estimate that rates of paternal depression range up to about 25 percent when there isn’t concurrent PPD in the female partner and as high as 50 percent among men whose partners are also experiencing postpartum depression. Rates are even higher in dads who work from home or stay at home, so it looks like there are a lot of sad SAHDs (Stay At Home Dads) out there. While men might not experiences the hormonal changes that give rise to PPD, they do experience substantial life changes that can trigger depression.
