Brian Austin Green ‘Assured’ Girlfriend Sharna Burgess That Her Postpartum ‘Dark Thoughts’ Were ‘Normal’

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Sharna Burgess has been vocal about her “intrusive mom thoughts” after welcoming son Zane — and she’s grateful for boyfriend Brian Austin Green’s support.“I felt called to share that because I went through the experience of thinking, ‘Is it just me?

Is it just me that has these [thoughts?] Is there something wrong with my brain? Am I heading into postpartum depression?’” the Dancing With The Stars pro, 37, told Entertainment Tonight on Friday, December 16. “I would ask, ‘Is this normal?’ and I did get assured by my family, by [Brian] that these sort of thoughts are normal.”Burgess — who gave birth to Zane, now 6 months, in June — revealed via Instagram earlier this month that she had been constantly thinking about all the terrible things that could happen to her son.“Honestly I thought it was something wrong with my brain at first.

These super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong,” she captioned a candid December 9 Instagram post. “All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby.

Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident … the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.”The Australia native admitted that she’s “learned to tame” her dark thoughts, crediting therapy for helping her realize that she’s “not alone.”“I got to a point where I was having thoughts of Brian not making it home from work or my mom not making it back to her house from leaving our house,” Burgess told ET on Friday, referring to mother Lucy Burgess, who recently moved to Los Angeles to help care for Zane. “And I had one panic attack and that’s when I went, ‘I absolutely need to see someone about this because it’s escalating.’”The choreographer added: “I realized that every mom goes through this in some