Brooke Shields reaches out to Britney Spears

Finally! I was beginning to think I was taking my crazy pills when no one connected Britney Spears erratic behavior with postpartum depression. Leaving your babies at home, leaving your panties at home, leaving your hair on the barbershop floor - these are not things mentally-stable moms do.

People Magazine reports:

Shields, who suffered postpartum depression after the birth of her first child, says that if Spears – mom to Sean Preston, 18 months, and Jayden James, 6 months – is suffering from the condition as some have speculated, "then it really needs to be reckoned with, and it's very common, and she'll get through it."

Shields, the mother of two daughters, Rowan, 3, and 10-month-old Grier, wrote the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression detailing her experience and how she overcame it.