The eldest daughter of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin is opening up about her health struggles.
Delilah Belle Hamlin, 23, revealed details about a recent accidental overdose while also discussing the pain she has gone through battling other ailments, reported People.
In a video on her official Instagram page, Hamlin shared that she is battling a couple of illnesses, including encephalitis, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS), Epstein-Barr virus, and Lyme disease.
While learning about her PANDAS diagnosis, the star began having panic attacks which led her to make an appointment with a psychiatrist. From there, the doctor prescribed her several medications.
“He overprescribed me with one medication that one of my friends takes like 10 milligrams, and he gave me like 20 milligrams three times a day and then he gave me 3 milligrams of Xanax a day,” she said. “So my body got dependent on Xanax number one, and number two, I overdosed. I didn’t mean to at all. I overdosed on this one medication called propranolol. I took Benadryl with it and for some reason, I ended up in the hospital.”
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Following the medical emergency, Hamlin said that she felt “helpless” and “hopeless.”
“I wasn’t like a drug addict, but my body was dependent on it because of how much the doctor had prescribed me,” she added.
The model decided on her own to go to a treatment center for several weeks. However, her symptoms from her other illnesses, including seizures, made her a “medical risk.”
“I actually just got back yesterday. I’m really sad because I thought this place was gonna be a place to cure me...and it would just be a place I could relax,” Hamlin said. “But unfortunately, I was a medical risk, so I was politely asked to leave after three weeks of being there. That was really hard for me, because in mind if I’m too sick for this place, I’m too sick for anywhere. How can I get better?”
At the end of the video, she asked social media users for recommendations for her health struggles.
"My family and I are struggling to figure out what to do," Hamlin said. "It's an invisible illness. I can look perfectly fine and feel perfectly horrible."
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