Bryce Dallas Howard: Depression has been the biggest challenge to my identity

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Bryce Dallas Howard thinks battling depression has been the "biggest challenge to [her] identity". The 41-year-old actress has taken to Instagram to discuss her mental health journey, acknowledging that negative thoughts are "integral to the human experience".

Bryce - who has Theodore, 15, and Beatrice, 10, with her husband Seth Gabel - wrote on the photo-sharing platform: "My entire life, I had been so hyper-focused on blocking negative thoughts that I failed to embrace or appreciate that these feelings and emotions and crises were not only not to be avoided, but that they were integral to the human experience. " The Hollywood star explained that having children proved to be a turning point in her own mental health journey.

She said: "It was the last day on my first job as a new mother. I was still in the throes of postpartum depression, and I was in a car, alone, heading straight into the exquisite sunset we'd anxiously awaited all day.

It was an existential moment, and since no one could hear me, I asked the question aloud: What is the purpose of ALL OF THIS?! (sic)" Meanwhile, Bryce recently revealed that she faced pressure to lose weight for 'Jurassic World Dominion'.