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    A SILENT CRISIS

    Jul 21, 2021 5 minutes

    When Steve Wright became a dad, the UK was about to enter its first lockdown. He’d recently quit his job so he could take some time out to spend with his newborn son. What followed, however, was a crash course in the brutality of mental ill-health.

    “Essentially I had a breakdown,” says Wright. “This experience was completely alien to me. I had a complete mental collapse. I didn’t feel like I could pick my baby up without dropping him. I honestly believed at times I was going to hurt him. Thankfully, I never did. I think it was just my brain playing tricks on me, saying I was going to mess this up.”

    Wright is one of a growing number of men sharing their experiences of mental health struggles during the period defined broadly as the time from conception

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