New fathers should be screened for postpartum depression too, study says

Joel Gratcyk remembers the moment he finally broke. 

He pulled his car off to the side of the road, tears streaming down his face. His newfound fatherhood was supposed to be one of the happiest times of his life. Instead, he was sinking deep into a heavy sadness while his infant son sat in the back seat.

It was all too much. The stress, the lack of sleep, the lingering fear that he wouldn’t be a good parent.

“I just knew, at that moment, I needed help,” Gratcyk, 42, recalled.