Maren Morris Admits She 'Couldn't Work' Due to Postpartum Depression After Giving Birth: 'I Felt Useless'

Maren Morris is getting candid about her experience with postpartum depression.

On Wednesday's episode of The Howard Stern Show, the musician, 33, opened up about her experience with postpartum depression after delivering son Hayes Andrew, 3½. Discussing how she recently chopped off her long locks, the singer says that she "cut all the trauma out of her hair."

After host Howard Stern, 69, asks Morris about what trauma she's referring to, the singer notes that she hasn't seen Stern since she had her son in March 2020, but that she's been very public about her experience with depression.

"I think I was just starting to make very little sense to myself and to people around me," Morris says when asked about her depression. "I felt useless in the way of I couldn't work. I couldn't tour. Everything got canceled."

Morris tells Stern that she struggles with feeling like what she does for a living defines her identity.

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"It's a tough one when you've done something for so long to not think that that's you, even though you love it and it makes you a living, that's not who you are. So separating those things was helpful, getting on Zoloft was also really cool."

Stern asks if getting on medication lifted her out of her depression, which Morris says did help.

"It's like you're living in the negative, the red, for a long time without realizing it. That your supply is so depleted of just serotonin, dopamine and a lot of that is just chemical."

"And having the baby — and I had an emergency C-section — there were just a lot of things that didn't go to plan, but everyone's OK, everyone's healthy," she explains.

"But the other side of that, which I've been vocal about, is that it's a lot on the mom and you love your baby, and you're obsessed with your baby, but oh my God your body has been through a violent thing and of course you're going to be affected emotionally, hormonally by it afterwards."

Morris previously opened up about her struggle with postpartum depression last December on an episode of Sunday Today. Speaking with Willie Geist about having a baby while the world went into quarantine in 2020, the singer shared that "I think a lot of identity crises happened there."

Morris explained, "Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to like find the forest through the trees. But also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me."

The musician also discussed why she's felt more inclined to speak up about her opinions and the things she believes in since becoming a mom.

"I think it's gotten more galvanized since I've had my son, that I am really trying to make something beyond music," she said. "And I want people to look around at my shows and realize, 'OK, this is really loving, and safe, and comfortable.'"