Hachette Book Group Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

"I wasn't simply emotional or weepy, like I had been told I might be.

This was something quite different.

This was sadness of a shockingly different magnitude.

It felt as if it would never go away." But with the proper help, those despondent feelings did go away, and when the clouds finally lifted Brooke Shields wrote with honesty and clarity about her devastating bout with postpartum depression.

Here, in an effort to help women suffering from the same illness she chronicles her journey from crippling despair to recovery.

Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression