We appreciate it when public figures like Drew Barrymore “come out” with their struggles with mental health. Every time this happens, it contributes to the lessening of stigmas associated with mental illness and makes it easier for people to seek treatment with confidence. Here’s a short excerpt from an interview People Magazine did with Drew recently. And if you’re in Northeast Ohio and suspect you or someone you love might be experiencing postpartum depression, we hope you’ll call to inquire about an evaluation and treatment.
Being a mom is everything to Drew Barrymore.
Her life with her two young daughters, Olive, 3, and Frankie, 18 months, and husband, art consultant Will Kopelman, 38, is “is an abundance,” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “It’s perfect and totally imperfect.”
Yet after Barrymore gave birth to Frankie, she sensed something might be a little off. “I didn’t have postpartum the first time so I didn’t understand it because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,’ ” she says. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.”