Gwyneth Paltrow: I overcame Postpartum Depression without medication

 

Hollywood actress, Gwyneth Paltrow , 46, who has been open about her mental health struggles after welcoming her second child, son Moses claims she didn’t use medications  to overcame postpartum depression.

During a special edition of her goop Podcast on Wednesday celebrating the 10th anniversary of her company she said, “I had postnatal depression, as you know, after my son. A doctor tried to put me on antidepressants and I thought, if I need them, then yes, I’ll come back to it, they are lifesavers for certain people for sure.”

“I thought, well, what if I went to therapy and I started exercising again, and I stopped drinking alcohol and I just gave myself a period of regeneration and I slept more? I really broke out of it,” the mother of two shared.

“It was really shocking to me because I never thought that I would be a person who got post-natal depression,” she said during a conversation with her mother Blythe Danner also for the goop Podcast.

“I was so euphoric when Apple was born, and I assumed it would happen with Mosey and it just … it took a while. I really went into a dark place,” she recalled.

In 2011, Paltrow told Good Housekeeping,  “About four months into it, Chris came to me and said, ‘Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong.’ I kept saying, ‘No, no, I’m fine.’ But Chris identified it, and that sort of burst the bubble,”

“I thought postpartum depression meant you were sobbing every single day and incapable of looking after a child. But there are different shades of it and depths of it, which is why I think it’s so important for women to talk about it. It was a trying time. I felt like a failure,” she said.

About her marriage, in May, she said an episode of Howard Stern‘s SiriusXM radio show, “this is his second marriage … Neither of us wants more kids. We’re on the same team,”