Darkness and pain engulfed me after the birth of my son says Gwyneth Paltrow | Mail Online
Gwyneth Paltrow told yesterday of the struggle she faced to enjoy motherhood after she was left crippled by post-natal depression.
The Hollywood actress said the period after the birth of her son Moses was ‘one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating’ times of her life.
Miss Paltrow – who is married to British rock star Chris Martin – told how following the birth of the couple’s first child Apple in May 2004 she felt ‘euphoric’.
But when Moses was born only 23 months later it was very different experience.
The 37-year-old actress wrote: ‘When Moses came into the world in 2006, I expected to have another period of euphoria following his birth, much the way I had when my daughter was born two years earlier.
‘Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life.
‘For about five months I had, what I can see in hindsight as post-natal depression, and since that time, I have wanted to know more about it.
‘[This is] not only from a hormonal and scientific standpoint, and why so many of us experience it, but from the perspective of other women who have gone through it.
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