<p>Actress Brooke Shields revealed just how dangerous a turn her postpartum <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mental-illness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">depression</a> took when she decided to go off her medication cold turkey.</p>
<p>Shields, who first divulged her experience in a 2006 memoir (&#8220;Down Came the Rain&#8221;), described the scary turn of events in a <a href="https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1423-brooke-shields" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast interview</a> promoting her new two-part documentary for Hulu, &#8220;Pretty Baby.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Suddenly Susan&#8221; actress said that she had not wanted to take medication when the symptoms first began, shortly after her daughter Rowan&#8217;s birth in 2003. Eventually, at the behest of family members and friends, she relented. &#8220;It was so bleak. My mother-in-law called me and said I had dead eyes. I finally said OK to get everybody off my back.&#8221;</p>
<p>It took nearly a year to find the right medication and for Shields to finally notice some relief. But then she made a mistake — and because she was starting to feel better, she decided without consulting her doctor to stop taking her medication.</p>
<p>&#8220;I started just feeling more myself so I went off … because clearly I was a doctor by that point,&#8221; Shields admitted with a wry laugh. But she went on to say that it was not long before she realized just how bad an idea that was — during a terrifying drive on California&#8217;s 405 freeway.</p>
<p>&#8220;I thought I was going to drive my car into the wall on the 405. You see it [happening],&#8221; she said, explaining that the depression came with clear visualizations of all the horrible things that might happen. &#8220;It has pictures. They rush, if you close your eyes, into your brain.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shields recalled that her first instinct was likely what saved her, saying that she had immediately called her doctor from the car. &#8220;You’re going back on the medicine immediately,&#8221; the doctor told her, and stayed on the phone with the actress until she had safely arrived at home.</p>
<p>Shields famously <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/brooke-shields-tom-cruise-postpartum-depression-sundance-pretty-baby-1235497377/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took criticism</a> from actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise, who suggested that she should have taken some vitamins rather than opting for a prescription — and at the time, she fired right back in a statement: &#8220;I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression.&#8221;</p>

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