'Rain' Explores the Antithesis of One Actress's Fairytale Image of Motherhood
Actress Brooke Shields dreamed of having a child for many years and had to work hard to make that dream come true. But following the birth of her daughter in 2003, she suffered a debilitating bout of postpartum depression that made her rethink all of her plans.

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How Having A Baby Cured My Depression
Actress Brooke Shields recently wrote a book chronicling how the birth of the child she tried so hard to conceive pulled her into a crippling depression. Postpartum depression is talked about more frequently in this day and age, but rarely do women say having a child helped lift their depression. In this article one mother who experienced depression and took medication for it for several years does just that.

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