Basketball's Skylar Diggins-Smith on Postpartum Depression: 'Don't Be Afraid to Ask For Help'

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Basketball's Skylar Diggins-Smith on Postpartum Depression: 'Don't Be Afraid to Ask For Help'
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.SkyDigg4 played while pregnant during the 2018 WNBA season. Now, she's sharing her PPD experience.

Skylar, 29, admitted after a national team practice at the Nike NYC headquarters in January that, for her, being a new mom struggling through hard-to-describe darkness was difficult because she was never the type of person to ask for help. And, though her son was healthy and well taken care of, she"wasn't feeling right." Looking back, she compares the feelings to being in a cave — she would have separation anxiety and wouldn't leave her son's side.

There are so many mothers in the WNBA, Skylar said, but she and others haven't felt as supported as they needed to be. Under a new

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