Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Teddi Mellencamp shared how getting Covid while fighting stage 4 cancer took a toll on her mental health on the Diamonds in the Rough podcast.
Teddi talk:
“I got COVID,” announced the mother of three. “I’m good now, but then I started feeling extreme, extreme depression.” The podcaster felt “hopeless.”
“I called my psychiatrist. My dad flew in his assistant to be with me. But I haven’t ever felt like that.”
Teddi’s psychiatrist “changed [her] medications around.” Also, she was reminded that “nobody really knows what [she’s] going through.”
She admitted she “cried every single day last week.” Because Teddi “hate[s] asking people for help,” she suffers in silence.
Teddi “felt paralyzed” and experienced “brain fog” which is why she didn’t “reach out to anybody.”
Adjusting to the new normal:
Teddi went from “having this chaotic life, nonstop, and then right into the hospital.”
Erika Jayne, Teddi’s co-host, thinks “the seriousness and the gravity” of her situation is “hitting [her] months later.”
According to Teddi’s doctors, it’s “normal to feel this way.” Unfortunately for Teddi, that doesn’t make her situation any less “scary.”
“You just feel so stuck,” described the RHOBH alum. “I still can’t drive.”
“I felt like I was just stuck inside this house, and then COVID added to it. [Teddi] was like, ‘Holy shit, I haven’t felt like this EVER.’”
If you need immediate support with depression or any emotional distress, call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit 988lifeline.org for chat services.
