Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay opened up about navigating her OCD and motherhood in a candid new interview.
The 38-year-old West Covina resident explained that the conversation about being a mother and “postpartum OCD” is something that doesn’t get talked about.
“It was misdiagnosed,” she said People. ‘A lot of people don’t know what’s going on with them. And so once I realized this, 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 birth of her daughter Summer Moon in April 2021.
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 patient to experience fears of infecting 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 that she’s been taking “a package of whole brain and strength supplements” to help with her “intrusive thoughts and just how” she feels in general.
“But I mean, it’s, you know, a battle in my head every day,” the TV personality revealed.
The mother of one continued, “I finally made an appointment with my doctor last week to get some kind of medication because my anxiety, OCD, everything, I mean it’s been bad since I had her.”
“I obviously had a very traumatic birth,” Shay added.
During a 2021 episode of her podcast, she told her followers that her “blood pressure was very high.”
“It was stroke level, seizure level,” recalled Shay, who suffered from undiagnosed preeclampsia.
After delivering her little girl, she said she was “blue” and “not screaming.”
The 38-year-old West Covina resident explained that the conversation about being a mother and having “postpartum OCD is something that doesn’t get talked about.”
“It was misdiagnosed,” she told People. ‘A lot of people don’t know what’s going on with them. And so once I realized this, I was like, “Oh my God. Now it makes sense”
“I’m terrified that I just delivered a stillborn child,” Shay recalled.
The experience, along with having a miscarriage in 2020, also left her with PTSD.
Before welcoming her little girl, Shay had been open about her fertility issues, revealing 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, whom she first met in September 2019 at a music festival in San Diego.
He proposed to her in July 2021, almost three months after the birth of their daughter.