Becky Lynch speaks out about her battle with postpartum depression
While speaking to the Happy Mum podcast, WWE star Becky Lynch spoke out about her battle with postpartum depression…
“I had figured I’d probably be inclined to get postpartum depression, but nobody had told me that you can get it after you’re done breastfeeding. I breastfed for over two years.
So then, when she was over two and I weaned her, all of a sudden I’m so low. I was like, ‘What is happening?’ I had no idea until somebody told me. They were like, ‘Oh yeah, I got it after I weaned my daughter off.’ She became such a source of support for me. I didn’t realize that could happen.
I remember describing it as, like, I couldn’t see colors. Everything just felt gray and dull, and I had no hope. I didn’t want to get out of bed in the morning. I didn’t want to exist. I was just so low, and anything that went wrong went super wrong. I didn’t feel worthy of my husband, all of that stuff.
I tell everybody because I don’t really know how to keep it in. Then I’m like, ‘Oh, now I sound like a nuts person,’ you know, sometimes as well. Then there is the worrying about other people’s perceptions of me.
But then, actually, acupuncture is what got me out of that. I never took any medication.”