What does depression look like? It’s not always… sadness. It can be anger. Irritability. Picking fights. Checking out. Taking risks that don't make sense. It can look, to everyone around you — including you — like a character problem, not a medical condition.
Christopher Choukalas is an ICU physician at UCSF. Six months after his twin daughters were born, he had every symptom on the paternal postpartum depression list. He had no idea.
In this episode, Dr. Becky and Dr. Choukalas go through the symptom list live — and talk about why this form of depression is so easy to miss, what it costs the whole family when it goes unnamed, and what getting help actually looked like for one father who needed it badly.
Christopher G. Choukalas, MD, MS is the author of <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780237/even-the-darkest-night-by-christopher-g-choukalas-md/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Even the Darkest Night: A Father's Journey of Hope and Healing from Paternal Depression.</a>
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