Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay opened up about navigating her OCD and motherhood in a candid new interview.
The West Covina native, 38, explained that the conversation of being a mother and having ‘postpartum OCD is something that’s not talked about.’
‘It’s misdiagnosed,’ she told People. ‘A lot of people don’t know what’s wrong with them. And so once I figured this out, I was like, ‘Oh my God. Now it makes sense.”
The reality star has been open about her ‘terrifying’ journey with postpartum OCD following the April 2021 birth of her daughter, Summer Moon.
Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay opened up about navigating her OCD and motherhood in a candid new interview; seen in 2023
Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder occurs after childbirth, and causes the sufferer to experience fears of contaminating the baby, dropping the baby and ‘extreme feelings of not being a good mother or caregiver,’ according to Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA).
After getting a brain scan, Shay explained she’s ‘on a whole brain and power supplement pack’ to help her ‘intrusive thoughts and just overall how’ she’s feeling.
‘But I mean, it is, you know, a battle every day in my brain,’ the TV personality revealed.
The mother-of-one continued: ‘I did finally make an appointment with my doctor last week to get on some sort of medication, because my anxiety, OCD, everything, I mean — it’s been bad since I had her.’
‘I obviously had a very traumatic labor,’ Shay added.
During a 2021 episode of her podcast, she told her followers that her ‘blood pressure spiked really high.’
‘It was stroke level, seizure level,’ Shay, who suffered from undiagnosed preeclampsia, recalled.
After delivering her little girl, she said she was ‘blue’ and ‘not screaming.’
The West Covina native, 38, explained that the conversation of being a mother and having ‘postpartum OCD is something that’s not talked about’
‘It’s misdiagnosed,’ she told People . ‘A lot of people don’t know what’s wrong with them. And so once I figured this out, I was like, ‘Oh my God. Now it makes sense”
‘I’m terrified that I just delivered a stillborn,’ Shay remembered.
The experience, along with suffering a miscarriage in 2020, also gave her PTSD.
Before welcoming her little girl, Shay had been open about her fertility struggles and revealed in January 2019 that she had frozen some of her eggs after being told her ovarian reserve was very low for her age.
Shay is married to Brock Davies, who she met first met in September 2019 at a music festival in San Diego.
He proposed to her in July 2021, nearly three months after the birth of their daughter.
