Brooke Shields The Depression Post-Delivery

In the spring of 2005 Brooke Shields spoke on numerous reviews, issuing TV and participated to the Oprah Winfrey Show in order to advertise her battle against the post-delivery depression , an experience that beyond the depression, can carry to suicide, the inability to answer to the requirements of the child and prevents an affective tie.

The actress had told that, after the birth of the first daughter Rowan Francis, she had fallen in a depression state that had pushed her to suicide. Tom Cruise in the May of 2005 had criticized the actress because she had spoken in favor of the use antidepressant . The actor is a follower of Scientology (religious movement that sees the psychiatry as a “pseudoscience” and is clearly contrary to the this medicine) .

In the article in an interview to the New York Time, published with the title it War of Words 1 July 2005, Shields answered to the critics of Crouise thinking them “, saying that it would have had “to adhere herself to the combat of the averse ones” (referring to the role of the actor in the film the war of the worlds of the same year and to the multiple exotic aspects of the doctrine and instruction of Scientology) and to leave the mothers the choice in order to exit from the depression post-delivery.

In her book Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields speaks about her serious depressive crisis and the aid received from the doctors. “Serious one is a problem much, has been hold back from many women in order to have open a problem that comes too much often ignored for lack of information, shame, fear. This is my history, real staff and”.

31 August 2006 comes published on USAToday.com the reconciliation between the two star. Three months after Shields and her husband participate to the wedding of Cruise and Holmes in Italy.

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