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"Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed that she suffered from post-natal depression after giving birth to her son Theo in 2007. The Twilight actress, who plays vampire Victoria in Eclipse, admitted that she was affected by the condition for 18 months before feeling better. &amp;quot;What was so devious about it is that I am normally such an optimistic person and it hit the moment that he was born,&amp;quot; she told The Daily Telegraph. &amp;quot;Something was really off, and I didn&amp;#039;t want to admit it. I felt as if I was in a black hole and I couldn&amp;#039;t get out of it. It was really overwhelming and went on for a long time.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;I was crying in the shower all the time, not feeling like myself, not feeling connected to my son or to my husband \u00E2\u20AC\u201C certainly not to myself \u00E2\u20AC\u201C not being able to make decisions.&amp;quot; Howard added that she did not seek treatment for the disorder and waited for it to go away on its own.  &amp;quot;I felt totally overwhelmed in every area, and like a failure. When he was a year and a half old it was gone, suddenly one day. I was sitting with my sister and my best friend and I just suddenly felt as if everything was okay. There was a hormonal shift,&amp;quot; she said.  Twilight: Eclipse opens in the US on June 30.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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