It is the final day of Postnatal Depression Awareness Week for this year so I thought, what better way to let you know that you are not alone than to show you? So here are 20 well known women that have also battled postnatal depression, or postpartum depression as it is termed in the US, and quotes they have said. Each woman experiences postnatal depression differently, celebreties are no different, so each woman has a very different perspective and therefore different quotes. I hope you find this educational as to the full spectrum of postnatal depression.
Adele
Brooke Shields
Drew Barrymore
Gwenyth Paltrow
Alanis Morissette
Courteney Cox
Kristen Bell
Marie Osmond
Bryce Dallas Howard
Amanda Peet
Hayden Panettiere
Amy Davidson
Lena Headey
Lisa Rinna
Carnie Wilson
Natasha Hamilton
Jessica Rowe
Miki Brzezinski
Valerie Plame Wilson
Kerri Sackville
And of course, I had it too. I’m no celebrity, but I’m there with you.
If you or someone you know has postnatal depression you can find good resources on the following sites:
- Gidget Foundation http://gidgetfoundation.com.au/
- PANDA http://www.panda.org.au/
- PIRI http://www.piri.org.au/
- Black Dog Institute http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/
- Lifeline https://www.lifeline.org.au/
Buy my book Confessions of a Mad Mooer: Postnatal Depression Sucks here.
Write or Wrong 
Thanks for coming by my site recently. I too dealt with postnatal (or as we call here in the US – postpartum) depression. No matter what you call it, it sucks. When my son was five, I finally brought it up to my doctor and she blew me off. Until then, I blamed my extreme exhaustion and feelings if destitution to the fact that my son had issues that made him chronically miserable and he slept poorly for the first five or six years of his life. I love that you describe yourself as neurodiverse, as my son is as well. Cheers!