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In a 715-word essay on Friday's New York Times op-ed page, actress Brooke Shields responded to Tom Cruise's denunciation of psychiatry and antidepressants : "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show Today last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression."
Shields calls the remarks "like those made by Tom Cruise ... a disservice to mothers everywhere. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general."
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Explaining the physical and emotional reactions to "the depression ... caused by the hormonal shifts that occur after childbirth," Shields reveals her own problems dealing with the Spring 2003 birth of her daughter, Rowan Francis. "I attributed feelings of doom to simple fatigue and figured that they would eventually go away. But they didn't; in fact, they got worse," writes Shields, who admits to wanting to jump out the window.
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