Since the age of nineteen, US actress Kristen Bell is suffering from depression. She was silent for a long time and preferred to show herself strong and happy. At some point she decided to break her silence. Her husband was responsible for that, Bell said in an interview with the magazine "Women's Health".
"I've always been that bubbly, self-assured girl who seemed to go through life with a smile on her face - but I've never talked about it being different on some days," said the actress. It is important to her that depression is not a taboo subject - and that's why the 39-year-old talks about it more and more often.
Bell takes antidepressants daily to stabilize her "waves of unbalanced serotonin". At irregular intervals, she visits a therapist - but mostly relies on what she has learned in the couple therapy with husband Dax Shepard.
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Kristen Bell: "You get up, you brush your teeth"The couple has two children: the four-year Delta and the six-year-old Lincoln. The children would have helped her break out of the hamster wheel, constantly watching the progress of her life.
Also helpful is a trick her husband had brought from his meetings with the anonymous alcoholics. You have to focus on doing one after the other: "You get up, you brush your teeth, just one step at a time."
Bell and Sheperd have been married for six years. The actress was known in particular by the personification of Veronica Mars in the eponymous television series.