Delilah Belle Hamlin previously opened up about her struggle on Instagram.
“This is scary to do,” she said in her video. “Basically, in the beginning of the year, I want to say February and March, is when I got my COVID-19 vaccine…And after the second vaccine, I was sick for, like, 36 hours. I felt like my bones were breaking but, like, whatever…That’s when everything kind of started.”
She explained that she was flying home from the U.K. in order to receive her second dose. When she got home, she had a panic attack and had to get help from the housekeeper.
“I didn’t realize that the vaccine would cause an autoimmune response in my body,” she said. “Basically [it] flared up and triggered certain autoimmune diseases that I didn’t know I had…I started getting really sick, I started feeling like I had the flu. I was getting migraines, I was having panic attacks—it was like my body was in constant ‘fight or flight’ mode. It was horrible.”
She clarified that she was pro-vaccine but had been unaware of the potential side effects.
“I just knew in my gut that there was something else wrong,” Delilah Belle said about the panic attacks. “For the panic attacks, they were so bad that I had to find a psychiatrist. I found this guy and he…over-prescribed me.”
The doctor advised her to take 3mg of Xanax per day, but she became dependent on the anti-anxiety medication.
“My body got dependent on Xanax, No. 1, and No. 2, I overdosed,” she explained. “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.”
Delilah explained that the Xanax ultimately didn’t help her panic attacks and she later checked into a mental health facility for further treatment.
“I had already come down on the Xanax. I wasn’t like a drug addict, but my body was dependent on it because of how much the doctor had prescribed me,” Delilah Belle continued. “I thought this place was gonna be, like, a place to cure me, cure everything, help me.”
She said that it was difficult to be in treatment, but it helped.
“Everything seemed to work. I cut down so much on my Xanax [use]…[But] I’m having seizures left and right,” the model said. “My health is getting scary…Unfortunately, I was, I think, a medical risk, so I was politely asked to leave after three weeks of being there and making a best friend.”
The treatment center wasn’t considered a medical facility, so she was advised to go elsewhere.
“My family and I are struggling to figure out, kind of, what to do,” Delilah added. “Mentally, I am not great today. I’m feeling hopeless…since the last treatment center didn’t work out.”
According to Us Weekly, Delilah Belle was previously in rehab in 2018 for anxiety and depression. She’s currently struggling with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS), Epstein-Barr virus, and Encephalitis.
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