21 Celebrities Who Struggled With Depression

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14. AMANDA PEET

Amanda Peet is a Columbia University-educated American actress, best known for movies like Syriana, Something’s Gotta Give, The Whole Nine Yards, Identity, Jack & Jill, 2012 and Griffin and Phoenix, as well as the TV show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. She is married to the Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff, with whom she has two daughters.

Peet opened up in a 2008 interview for Gotham magazine about the difficulties she experienced following the birth of her first daughter in 2007. What she went through was textbook postpartum depression, made worse by extreme sleep deprivation. Peet said that she was even questioning her love toward the baby girl and felt ambivalent about being a mom. She eventually recovered but continued to talk about postpartum depression, stating that there is a stigma on this issue and that many women are afraid or ashamed to talk about what they’re going through.

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