Alanis Morissette likens postpartum depression to terror: 'I dipped into psychosis'

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Set us as preferred Alanis Morissette is getting candid about the terror she experienced with what she calls “postpartum activity.”Although terms like postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis may not have dominated trending topics in the 2010s when the singer-songwriter was having her three babies, Ever Imre, now 15; Onyx Solace, 10; and Winter Mercy, 7, it’s an especially hot-button issue today.And Morissette knows a thing or two about grappling with the condition.

On Wednesday, Morissette appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and told host Alex Cooper that she experienced postpartum depression after giving birth to each of children, and that the condition worsened each time.“Basically, I became another person,” she said, adding that her hormones felt out of whack.

“There’s some version of menopausal flux combined with ...invasive thoughts that are so harrowing — terrible, ceaseless, invasive thoughts, anxiety, depression, rage, off the charts.

I felt completely out of control, and yet I was touring ...and being a boss and being someone taking care of money and finances and everything, and that is the part where, when I’m quiet and alone, I might weep a little bit.”The legacy of Hayden Panettiere should not be defined by her tragic death at 36, but by her brave attempt to help millions of women.In recent months, attitudes around postpartum depression have shifted, and the condition has been discussed more urgently than perhaps ever before.

Hayden Panettiere’s death sparked renewed scrutiny of society’s treatment of women suffering from the condition.And the polarizing trial of Lindsay Clancy, a labor-and-delivery nurse who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity after killing her three children in 2023, has captivated the country since July.

Back in 2019, Morissette discussed her exp...