- Having a baby is a beautiful – and huge – change in your life, and it can be a stressful life event for many people.
- It's normal to feel some anxiety, stress, and anger when you're a parent, but when it gets out of control it's a good idea to seek help.
- As many as one in four women, and one in ten dads, experience postnatal depression.
- Having a mental illness doesn’t make you a bad parent.
- It's important for you and your baby that you seek help for mental illness as early as you can.
Parent mental health
Parenting is a tough job with a lot of responsibility and demands, and can impact your mental health in many ways. If you've lived with anxiety, depression or another mental illness before you had children, the effects of the changes that happen when you become responsible for a child can be bigger. Here’s some of the ways you can look after your mental health when you’re a parent.
