Originally appeared on E! Online .

Reese Witherspoon is reflecting on a difficult chapter in her life.

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" The Morning Show" actress recently detailed her lifelong struggles with depression and anxiety, noting that she was hit with a particularly bad bout of low feelings while postpartum with her daughter Ava Phillippe , now 26, whom she shares with ex Ryan Phillippe .

“It was really bad,” Witherspoon admitted to Harper’s Bazaar in an interview published Nov. 2. “In the first six months, I was simultaneously happy and depressed. I just cried all the time, I was up all night, I was exhausted. It was a hormone drop I didn’t expect, which I experienced right after birth and again when I stopped nursing six months later.”

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