The meta-analysis was published in theJournal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecologyin late February.
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Leiferman and colleagues looked at studies from 1995-2020 that included more than 40,000 people.
“It’s important that we create more transparency around men’s mental health issues.”
“It’s like the worst kept secret,” he says.
“You see far more anxiety than you do depression.”
“And so mortality and lethality tend to be what drive headlines and funding briefly,” Singley says.
“We’re directly socialized to believe that [experiencing anxiety] is a weakness,” he says.
“So having anxiety means you’re weak and you feel vulnerable.
This experience of anxiety in the perinatal period, Singley says, can play out in various ways.
This applies to all types of perinatal experiencesstillborn, maternal death, infant death, and medically uncomplicated procedures.
“And they cannot leave the situation.
In certain ways, like these are factors that come together.”
He often sees dads who are self-medicating with alcohol and video games while isolating.
“They’re having nightmares.
They are highly avoidant of triggers,” Singley says.
“Say ‘masculinity’ to somebody, and maybe they’ve already filled in toxic,” Singley says.
to achieve healthy masculinity, Singley says we need to start early.
That second piece has to be there, too.
The evolution of masculinity is happening slowly, Singley says.
