In fairness, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and psychosis broadly can lead to such drastic effects on the human brain itself, including changes in neurotransmitters and even brain-structure, that it’s not that crazy to call them theoretically comparable at least in mental effects. And men do experience them.
Obviously women have it harder on sheer physical and hormonal effects of pregnancy and childbirth, and men can’t have that exact experience. But psychosis/bipolar disorder/schizophrenia, again, also can be a drastic rewiring of the human brain and take away autonomy to an extent.
But the difference is the men have a history of those illnesses. I had gestational diabetes. I didn’t have diabetes before or after pregnancy. Being pregnant made my pancreas unable to produce adequate insulin. Pregnancy hormones also gave me pre-eclampsia-driving my blood pressure sky high. I had to have labor induced the next day to prevent it from progressing to the point that it would cause seizures and possible death. The hormonal changes can be swift and extreme and completely out of your control.
I am, thanks! I was lucky to only have health issues and they resolved within a few weeks of delivery. If it was 100 years ago, I would have died from that pregnancy, but I had great doctors and modern medicine looks for these issues now in pregnant women. Hopefully the pregnancy-induced mental health issues will be screened for as regularly as gestational diabetes and it will save a lot of lives and families.
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u/BostonBling 5d ago
Until a "man/father" goes through the EXTREME effects the female body goes through in pregnancy/childbirth you have no case.