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Men behaving sadly Depression is an illness that affects both men and women.
But people working in mental health services see far fewer men with depression than women with depression. It seems likely that men suffer from depression just as often as women, but that they are less likely to ask for help. This leaflet gives some basic facts about depression in general and how it affects men in particular. This is often a shock, because there is no obvious reason why it should happen - it's not that the baby was unwanted, or that the pregnancy or birth were complicated or, as a rule, that there is anything wrong with the baby. Sometimes this is easy to explain - the baby is unwanted or abnormal.