Actress Reese Witherspoon has opened up candidly about her experiences with depression, which she suffered from as a teenager and also as a new mom to daughter Ava, who she gave birth to in 1999. The Morning Show star also shared how her grandmother, Dorothea, had also suffered with depression, and Reese 's mother warned her it could run in the family. "She had been this well-educated woman who was then left alone with two little kids while her husband went to work," Reese told Harper’s Bazaar . "She got really depressed. My mom was honest with me and said, 'You need to be careful. This could be genetic.'"

After Ava's birth, she said the depression was "really bad," as her mood fluctuated up and down. "In the first six months, I was simultaneously happy and depressed. I jus

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