Tammin Sursok reveals she suffered from postnatal anxiety

The actress opens up about her struggle.

March 17 2017

My essay I wrote on news.com is out today this one is very personal. I hope you can read and share with anyone struggling :) it's about postpartum anxiety which hit me like a ton of bricks after I had my daughter. Often misdiagnosed and just as dangerous. Here is an excerpt below. Please read the whole essay and share it with anyone struggling. Link in the bio above. "I remember that day. Even in my detachment from my newly formless world I remember it so vividly that it burns bright in technicolor. "Mum, I need help." I faintly whispered that morning. "I can't do this anymore." I've never really asked for help. I spent my life trying to pave my own road like a relentless, tunnel-vision warrior, reframing every painful experience into that of a positive one. But then again I've never really suffered so much that it broke me. Suffered so much that I felt like my entire body was made of glass and a mere touch would create hairline fractures that would slowly break, like pieces of a puzzle, and take my soul away with it."
My essay I wrote on news.com is out today this one is very personal. I hope you can read and share with anyone struggling :) it's about postpartum anxiety which hit me like a ton of bricks after I had my daughter. Often misdiagnosed and just as dangerous. Here is an excerpt below. Please read the whole essay and share it with anyone struggling. Link in the bio above. "I remember that day. Even in my detachment from my newly formless world I remember it so vividly that it burns bright in technicolor. "Mum, I need help." I faintly whispered that morning. "I can't do this anymore." I've never really asked for help. I spent my life trying to pave my own road like a relentless, tunnel-vision warrior, reframing every painful experience into that of a positive one. But then again I've never really suffered so much that it broke me. Suffered so much that I felt like my entire body was made of glass and a mere touch would create hairline fractures that would slowly break, like pieces of a puzzle, and take my soul away with it."

Last month the Pretty Little Liars actress revealed that she wants to have a second child with husband Sean McEwan.

"But I so want another child, I want one so badly that I can feel him/her with me. I close my eyes and I can smell their smell," she wrote on her blog.

"My body is so ready that it's frustrated. I hear their name as I drift off to slumber and I know it won't be too long until we meet each other."

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