Anna Williamson bravely shares postpartum depression battle: ‘I had suicidal thoughts’
28.07.2022 - 11:07
/ ok.co.uk
Anna Williamson and Luisa Zissman have opened up on their individual experiences with postpartum depression in a powerful chat with OK! magazine about Boots' Taboo Talk podcast's third season, which launched on 27 July. Celebs Go Dating star Anna, 41, who recently shared a peak inside her country Hertfordshire home, is mum to son Vincenzo and daughter Eleanora with husband Alex Di Pasquale. While she's now come out the other side, Anna explained that she "hated being pregnant the first time around" as she felt "irrational and erratic".
Describing the act of becoming a mother as an "almighty kind of grenade that goes off in your life," she explained that even if people have a good pregnancy and birth, it's still a "huge experience". "I would go from zero to 100 with my mood swings," she explained. "I was incredibly irrational, mentally unstable throughout that pregnancy, which then ramped up into birth and I had a terrible birth with Enzo".
Anna said that there was a huge shift in her identity once she became a mum, which contributed to her postpartum depression as she shared: "I was in I was in serious trouble. I mean, I was borderline postpartum psychosis, I was having suicidal thoughts, and then intrusive thoughts. I was scared to be left alone with him [my baby]".
Fortunately, Anna knew some of the triggers and just nine days after giving birth she called up a psychiatrist friend to come up with a "crisis plan" for her.The star explained that she went on short-term medication as she couldn't sleep and was "hallucinating a lot". She then stopped breastfeeding her son as the stress over being the "only person that could feed this little boy" wasn't good for her. "If you're highly anxious, you've just had a two and a
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