In 2016, the singer spoke out about her depression fight, telling ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she had been diagnosed with severe depression and had spent time in psychiatric hospitals. “One of the things that occur with depression is that I’ve had a lot of traumas throughout my life… and you just keep squelching it down, you just keep suppressing it, and then one day if you don’t deal with it, stuff starts seeping out sideways.” She claimed that she had serious treatment resistance and had even had electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “shock” therapy) in the hopes of “restarting” the chemicals in her brain.Īs she pointed out, it’s important to face your difficulties full-on rather than pretending they don’t exist. Judd underwent counseling after her husband and Ashley contacted 911 “in the middle of the night.” But that wasn’t a quick remedy. You sink into this deep, black abyss of depression and don’t think there’ll be another minute.'” “That’s how horrible things can become,” she said. Suicide was an option she considered, and she even looked into a nearby bridge. Still, it took some time for her to recognize she needed professional treatment, at which point she stated, “I was dangerously depressed.” It has nothing to do with our personality.” “We don’t create enough healthy neurochemicals in the brain,” the 76-year-old explained. She compared it to when the body stops producing insulin in diabetic individuals. It truly appeared out of nowhere, but that was one of the points Judd wanted to emphasize: it wasn’t about being happy or sad, but about a hormonal imbalance. “I couldn’t move because I was so miserable… When my husband (Larry Strickland), my girlfriends, and Ashley came over, I would simply go upstairs and shut the door to my bedroom… You get immobilized.” “I didn’t move off my sofa for two years,” she said on Tuesday’s TODAY show. She’d just finished a tour with her fellow country music artist and daughter Wynonna (Judd is also the mother of actress Ashley Judd) when a hammer seemed to fall on her life, paralyzing her. But everything changed in an instant in 2011.
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