Gwyneth Paltrow 'broke out' of postpartum depression with exercise, therapy
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The Goop founder, 46, says she fell into a dark space following the birth of her second child, Moses, in 2006. A doctor initially prescribed Paltrow antidepressants, but she decided on another treatment method.
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“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?” Paltrow revealed on her Goop podcast Wednesday. “I really broke out of it.”
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Paltrow added that antidepressants “are lifesavers for certain people,” but they weren’t what she wanted.
As she told Good Housekeeping in 2011, her ex-husband, Chris Martin, pointed out her behavior shortly after Moses’ birth.
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“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,” she recalled.
Paltrow said that her depression took on a different form than what is frequently portrayed, saying, “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.”