Melissa Rycroft's husband, Tye Strickland, suspected postpartum depression after they welcomed daughter Ava but didn't want to be the first one to say anything. Eventually, Rycroft told the Bump, "I thought I had a really bad case of the baby blues. I was three months into it before I realized it could be postpartum depression. I had a massive case of denial, though. I thought women with postpartum depression wanted to hurt their babies. But for me, it had nothing to do with Ava. I had this big emptiness that you shouldn't have right after you have a baby. I was like, I don't want to seem like I'm not happy — it's just that there's something chemically wrong. I would get frustrated and angry really easily. Usually I'm very in control with my emotions, and that had changed. I found out that I actually had a classic case of postpartum depression. Only 1 percent of the cases are the more extreme kind. Most cases are like what I'd been going through. It's just that a lot of people don't talk about it, and I felt like the only person going through it."
