Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Gwyneth Paltrow talk postpartum depression: 'It was terrible and lonely'

It was Chris Martin who first suspected that his then-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, was struggling with postpartum depression following the birth of their son, Moses, in 2006.

“With my son, I had it quite badly, and I didn’t realize it,” Paltrow told Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Thursday’s episode of her Goop Podcast. “I just thought I couldn’t get my s*** together, and I was so all over the place emotionally and really disconnected from myself. It was terrible and lonely and awful, awful.

Louis-Dreyfus explained that she struggled with postpartum depression after giving birth to both of her twentysomething sons, Henry and Charlie. “But nobody was calling it that then,” the Veep star said, “so I just thought, ‘Oh, s***, I’m losing my mind.’” “I just remember it was terrifying. It really was scary, because there was this feeling like I should not have had children and that is terrifying after you’ve given birth,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “It’s not a good feeling.”“I was weeping all the time,” she told Paltrow. “I think you said you were separated from yourself. I didn’t feel like myself. I don’t know how else to say it.

The U.S. government’s Office on Women’s Health reports that one in nine women experience postpartum depression, and it offers resources on its website.Want daily pop culture news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here for Yahoo Entertainment & Lifestyle's newsletter.

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