'Parenthood's' Monica Potter: Kristina's Postpartum Depression is Real

"Parenthood's" Monica Potter is ensuring the NBC series remains a geniune depiction of family drama.After her character, the loyal and almost saint-like Kristina Braverman, shipped baby Nora round the Jason Katims ("Friday Evening Lights") drama, she spoken using the showrunner about including postpartum depression moments. "I put that available as it is an authentic factor and a lot of women approached me relating to this,In . mother of three notifies "The Hollywood Reporter." "I met a girl who was simply coping with severe postpartum depression which i introduced as much as Jason which he let me go for the place I'd go without needing to be considered a Darlene Downer."Carrying out a dramatic -- and frequently comedy (Peter Krause's Adam Braverman trying to become "stylish" was priceless) -- episode through which she gave birth, Kristina returns home and, much for the chagrin of her earliest daughter, Haddie (Sarah Ramos), struggles to discover balance between fostering of herself, the house, an infant, together with a boy with special needs."[I'm playing it] like I'm unraveling and you'll find things from my control, that's how women feel whether they have just stood a baby," she states. "I've felt it sooner or later throughout my existence which i usually would rather incorporate the particular stuff into playing her."Potter adds that Kristina will have trouble with the majority of the things new moms face in identifying who they may be beyond like a wife and mother. "Women have fought using this -- I have trouble with this -- where can you become yourself?" she states."You'll constantly be considered a mother, however think women lose themselves after we enter into motherhood and like a wife," she states. "It's like daily we awaken which we perform exactly the same things each day which we become robot.Between juggling her obligations fully house with Adam busy beginning their recording studio, The Luncheonette, Potter notes that Kristina won't be lower for extended."I appear like Kristina goes one other way,Inch she states. "She's been so encouraging of Adam as well as the family for this type of very long time and he or she just stood a baby now she's yanking herself up with the bootstraps and saying, 'I'm still a person, I've got a existence beyond like a mother and wife.' ""MotherhoodInch airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on NBC. The Hollywood Reporter