The archetype is that we're supposed to be this sort of, you know, strong armored person who feels nothing and everything bounces off of us and we're supposed to just put our head down and continue to grind forward, right?

That is definitely ingrained in you from everything that you consume, right?

For movies, to TV, to commercials, to everything.

Every voice you've ever heard, every hero that you ever had, right?

Your superheroes, they were all male figures, they were strong that nothing could touch

to them, nothing could penetrate them.

Hello, Pete's docktop podcast listeners.

I'm Dr. Mona.

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Today's guest is a returning guest, my husband, Gorov, who joins me to talk about postpartum mental health and also how men struggle

with their mental health and not just females. We have felt that the online world and

a lot of the narrative is around maternal mental health and even that is still taboo.

So you bring in men to the picture and men who may struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, and how they may not feel like they need to get help

or they actually seek help because of the stigma.

So we're talking about postpartum mental health and females and if they have male partners as well because often men are not

discussed in this equation. One out of ten men experience postpartum depression or anxiety and my husband and I want to bring in a personal

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