Dax Shepard is opening up about the husbandly duties he takes on when his wife Kristen Bell is feeling down.
Shepard, 49, discussed his coping mechanisms for depression during his Nov. 25 episode. Armchair expert podcast when the conversation turned to Bull’s Struggle.
“Kristen has depression, so it’s not necessarily based on one incident,” he shared during a chat with guest Anna Kendrick.
“It’s not like she has anything special. She’ll just have a wave of it. She’ll sleep a lot and there’s nothing I can do and I don’t think I should,” he told Bell, 44. said about
Shepard notes that he finds. No one wants that The actress is in a “slowdown” when she is going through a depressive episode.
“She’ll sleep a lot for a while, and then she’ll come out of it. Now at first, it used to scare me,” he admitted. “And I was like, ‘Is this going to last forever?'”
The podcast added that now that he’s “enough of the cycle,” he knows his wife is “going to be really, really, intensely organized for a couple of days, and then she’s going to A lot of sleep, and then it’s going to be over.”
Shepard then revealed how he tries to contribute to his mental well-being during these periods, adding that there were “steps” to his process.
“I will do it slowly. [be] Like, ‘Hey, love. Have you seen your psychiatrist recently? I’m not saying you need to do anything. Exactly, like, have you contacted your psychiatrist?”’ she said. It evolved because I was trying to fix it.”
He explained, “It’s my nature and I used to try to talk to him or tell him what’s good in his life or [make a] Thank you list.”
“One thing I’ll still do, and he likes it, and it doesn’t move. [her] The feeling of deciding to be sad, is [saying] Let’s go for a walk or go for a hike,” she added. “Like, motivational, let’s go for a walk.”
Bell has also spoken about his mental health journey with depression and anxiety on several occasions.
At some point, however, Bell decided to keep his struggles “private” despite his ongoing advocacy for mental health.
At the time, she revealed that Shepard challenged her to open up after being honest about her recovery from drug addiction.
Kristen and Dax, who have been married since 2013, have two children, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9.