Harry Hamlin remembered his wife, Lisa Rinna, threatening to kill him while fighting for postpartum depression.
“I had a horrible postpartum depression, but I knew it,” Rinna shared, 61, during the Friday episode “Let’s Talk about the husband” of the couple.
“I did it is what I was. When you have your first baby, you don’t know. You just don’t know.”
Rinna said she felt “absolutely desperate” while fighting with PPD for 15 months after her and the eldest daughter of her husband, Delilah Hamlin, 26, was born in June 1998.
The student “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” described that the sensation had “a huge dark cloud” on it at all times.
The depression returned with a revenge after welcoming his youngest daughter, Amelia Hamlin, 23, in June 2001.
That was when Harry, 73, really worried.
“You said:” I’m going to kill you, “the actor revealed.” And I said: ‘You better call [your OB-GYN] Right now. ‘You said:’ You better be careful. I want to kill you. “You said:” Keep the knives in the drawer. “
He thought Rinna did not remember exactly threatening Harry’s life, her story aligned with her experience.
“I was having horrible hallucinations of killing people, and I needed to get the knives out of the house,” he admitted. “And I also had horrible visions of driving the car to a brick wall.”
According to the Women’s Health Office, women fighting with the PPD to experience feelings of sadness, hopelessness, anger or volatility. In extreme cases, new mothers may experience hallucinations or intrusive thoughts about damaging their baby, themselves or others.
He thought that Rinna’s PPD was extremely extreme, she claimed to notice that she never experienced negative feelings towards any of her daughters.
“I had no horrible visions about hurting the baby in any way, form or form. It was not about that,” he explained. “It was hopelessness, darker depression and horrible thesis, hallucinations.”
The former soap opera star continued to think of “The Knives” and “driving the car to a brick wall,” confessing, “looking back, was completely psychotic.”
Anyway, Rinna was prescribed antidepressants, which “worked instantly” and “changed the game.”
Sheed urged the new mothers to suffer, especially those who suffer in silence, to ask for help.
If you or some, you know you need postpartum support, call the International postpartum support aid line at 1-800-944-4773.
