Britney Spears: Breakdown or Baby Blues?
It was more than a decade now since Britney Spears' breakdown ... in front of the entire world. It seemed as though you couldn't go through a check out line or turn on the television back than without hearing all about Britney Spears and her latest "Crazy Stunt". From shaving her hair off to talking in that creepy British accent, there was no question, Spears was not in her right mind.
It seemed that everyone had an opinion about what was going on. Some blamed he pop stars antics on becoming too famous, too rich, too young & too quickly. Others blamed drug and alcohol abuse. Others claimed that she had simply lost her mind. But in all the tabloid stories, entertainment shows and paparazzi videos surfacing on YouTube at this time, it seemed that there was a very obvious reason. One that, until recently, no one ever seemed to mention.
When you look at the decline of the pop princess's mental demise, it was not long after she became a mother of not one, but two baby boys almost a year to the day apart from one another. Sean Preston being born September 14th 2005 soon followed by his brother Jayden James not even a full year later on September 12th, 2006. Two months after the birth of her second son, Britney Spears split up from the father of the two boys, two months later. Being her infamous breakdown in 2007, it all seems to make sense now.
"She had postpartum depression after Preston was born," says a source who was close to the family during her marriage to Kevin Federline. "She didn’t want anyone’s help … It got worse after Jayden was born."
As a mother who suffered from post party depression myself shorty after the birth of my first child, in 2004, I was warned by my doctor to wait before having any more children or my post party depression symptoms would very likely become much worse. I listened to my doctor's advice, and with the support of family, friends and counselling, I got through my P.P.D. My second child, a daughter, was born in January 2016.
Post Partum Depression is a very personal and intimate thing for any woman to go through, so to go through it with the entire world watching would be no doubt, humiliating and horrifying. It's bad enough that you feel like you are going crazy without having to deal with headlines all over the place stating that you are crazy, a terrible mother and so many other ugly and truly insensitive things.
With Britney Spears doing interviews lately and talking about rejoining the music scene I hope she can do so without being reminded over and over of what had to be the lowest part of her life. She was suffering from an illness that so many women suffer from every day, only they have the luxury of not having the world read every detail of "(Woman's Name) Breakdown" in the magazines. I hope that if she does decide to pick up where she left off with music, she can do so with the sensitivity and grace of the public.
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