Ally Hilfiger on How the Long-Term Effects of Lyme Disease Landed Her in the Psych Ward

Imagine suffering from a range of ailments that totally upended your childhood, and then having a psychotic breakdown at 18 that led to institutionalization. That’s what happened to Ally Hilfiger, daughter of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger. When she was 7, Hilfiger was bitten by a tick, but not diagnosed with Lyme disease until 19. For all those years in-between she was dealing with intense long-term effects of Lyme disease that just kept getting worse, but because she wasn’t seeing any lyme-literate doctors, nobody knew what was going on. Once she learned that chronic Lyme was to blame, everything fell into place — but her journey to health was far from linear, and underscores how little most doctors understand about the long-term effects of Lyme disease.


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