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Tammy Slaton revealed she saw a doctor and started therapy after mood swings and “manic depression” strained her relationship
She discovered her mental health struggles were caused by the high dosage of the medication she was taking before her dramatic weight loss
The new episode of 1000-Lb. Sisters airs Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 9PM ET/PT
Tammy Slaton is finally getting to the root of her recent mental health struggles.
In PEOPLE’s exclusive clip from the upcoming episode of 1000-Lb. Sisters, the 39-year-old meets up with her siblings Chris and Misty after they returned from the family trip to New Orleans.
Tammy skipped the vacation due to the ongoing tension with her sister Amy, admitting that being around her family lately has made her anxiety worse. However, she didn’t give her family a reason why.
In the clip, Chris questions why Tammy didn’t want to join the rest of her siblings and why she’s uninterested in hearing about how their trip went.
“I don’t understand that because not two or three years ago, that was where you wanted to go,” he tells her.
“Tammy’s acting like she don’t want to hear nothing about the vacation,” Chris adds in a confessional. “At any other time, she’d have been the first one in the car ready to go. So for her not wanting to take off and go on a trip, that right there tells you something ain’t right.”
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Chris and Misty decide to turn around the conversation by asking Tammy about what she did while they were gone.
“I’m going to the therapist,” she reveals.
Tammy has been experiencing mood swings lately. She decided to seek professional help after then-girlfriend Andrea Dalton threatened to end their relationship over the outbursts and added stress.
“Since I talked to Andrea, I’ve had a couple appointments for therapy,” Tammy shared in a confessional. “Also, I went to the doctors. They did a bunch of blood work and my medication, it was such a high dose for my bigger body and now that I’m not so big, it was too high for my body size.”
“It just kind of put me in, I guess, a manic depression state and it was making me have a mental breakdown,” she continues. “So they took me off five prescriptions that I didn’t need anymore, and then they lowered the rest of them.”
The new episode of 1000-Lb. Sisters airs Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 9PM ET/PT
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