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

"Parenthood's" Monica Potter is making sure the NBC series remains an authentic depiction of family drama.After her character, the loyal and almost saint-like Kristina Braverman, delivered baby Nora around the Jason Katims ("Friday Evening Lights") drama, she spoken with the showrunner about including postpartum depression moments. "I put that available since it is a genuine factor and lots of women contacted me about this,Inch mom of three informs "The Hollywood Reporter." "I met a lady who had been dealing with severe postpartum depression and that i introduced up to Jason and that he allow me to go towards the place I'd go without having to be a Darlene Downer."Following a dramatic -- and often comedy (Peter Krause's Adam Braverman attempting to be "stylish" was priceless) -- episode by which she gave birth, Kristina returns home and, much towards the chagrin of her oldest daughter, Haddie (Sarah Ramos), struggles to locate balance between being careful of herself, the home, a baby, along with a boy with special needs."[I am playing it] like I am unraveling and you will find things from my control, that is how women feel when they have just were built with a baby," she states. "I have felt it at some point during my existence and that i always prefer to incorporate the actual stuff into playing her."Potter adds that Kristina will have a problem with most of the things new moms face in determining who they really are beyond as being a wife and mother. "Lots of women have battled with this particular -- I have a problem with this -- where would you become yourself?" she states."You'll continually be a mother, however i think women lose themselves once we get into motherhood and as being a wife," she states. "It's like daily we awaken and that we perform the same things every single day and that we become robot.Between juggling her obligations fully house with Adam busy starting their recording studio, The Luncheonette, Potter notes that Kristina will not be lower for lengthy."I seem like Kristina will go another way," she states. "She has been so encouraging of Adam and also the family for such a long time and she or he just were built with a baby and today she's tugging herself up through the bootstraps and saying, 'I'm still an individual, I have a existence beyond as being a mother and wife.' ""Being a parent" airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on NBC. The Hollywood Reporter