'Nobody explained to me that when you wean a baby, your hormones go into the toilet.'
."One kid, I had kind of mild postpartum, and one kid, I had severe postpartum where I had to take pretty heavy medication because I just wasn't thinking straight at all. And then I had one kid where I had no postpartum at all."Although the actress revealed she started going to therapy when she was 16 and has been managing her anxiety and depression her entire life, she said childbirth and becoming a mother was the biggest stressor to her mental health.
"I was 23 years old when I had my first baby, and nobody explained to me that when you wean a baby, your hormones go into the toilet," she said."I felt more depressed than I'd ever felt in my whole life. It was scary. Completely out of control. I didn't have the right kind of guidance or help. I just white-knuckled back."
She explained that she couldn't get help from her mom, a pediatric nurse, who lived in another state and because, frankly, there just"wasn't the type of communication we have now."
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