New dad Matt Carter knew something wasn’t quite right when he suddenly became overwhelmed with sadness as soon as his two babies started crying. From there, it just snowballed. He experienced several breakdowns before finally telling a maternal and child health nurse he was struggling.
The now father of three was eventually diagnosed with postnatal depression, a condition he didn’t even know could impact men as it is often associated with mums.
“There was a lot of anxiety, a lot of sadness,” Carter told AAP.
“A lot of just me pulling away from my wife and my babies as well, just wanting to kind of be left alone because I didn’t know what to do. I was lost.”…