Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette says she experiences postpartum depression after each of her children and describes it as severely distressing. She says the condition affected her mental health to the point where she believes she “dipped into psychosis,” describing the period as frightening.
In interviews reported by outlets, Morissette also says her postpartum depression becomes “increasingly worse” with each pregnancy. Both reports focus on what she learned to do to get through the episodes over time, though the Los Angeles Times emphasizes the intensity of her account while Business Insider highlights the progression across pregnancies and coping lessons. Together, the articles present a consistent picture: she describes postpartum depression as recurring after childbirth, worsening with subsequent babies, and involving serious symptoms, alongside personal steps she says helped her manage it.
Neither outlet disputes the broad account, but they differ in emphasis—one drawing attention to her comparison to terror and her psychosis remark, and the other underscoring the timeline of worsening symptoms and coping strategies.
