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Brooke Shields' difficult battle with PPD

Categories: Pregnancy & Birth, Media

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It's possible to overlook the tales of post-partum depression in the faceless middle class. But when a gorgeous, charismatic model-turned-star like Brooke Shields tells her story of confusion, despair and, ultimately, a suicide attempt, it puts the problem of PPD in a whole new light. Her new book, Down Came the Rain: A Mother's Story of Depression and Recovery will be released next month, and this is the first of two excerpts her publishers are releasing. Brooke says that, despite a "genuinely happy and healthy" pregnancy and a deep desire to be a mom, once Rowan was born, "all she could do was cry…" She had just moved to a new apartment, and her father had died three weeks before Rowan's birth. "I wasn't simply emotional or weepy, like I had been told I might be. This was sadness of a shockingly different magnitude… I felt no appreciation for [Rowan]. I just had no desire to pick her up."

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