FIONA Phillips has admitted she is just too frightened to return to TV on account of an ongoing battle with "mind fog".
The previous GMTV host, 61, has been affected by the debilitating situation since getting into the menopause.
Fiona has admitted to The Mirror that she has "cried a thousand rivers" through the previous few weeks and 'fears for her sanity'.
She instructed the publication: "God, it’s horrible, I haven’t labored for the primary time in my life, I can’t do tv work as a result of I’m so anxious and simply frightened of all the pieces and I’m not that sort of particular person in any respect.
"I've the intent to do all the pieces I used to do, however then your physique, your mind, doesn’t allow you to."
Fiona added: "I hope to God this isn’t the top of my profession."
RISE TO THE TOP
Fiona started her profession as a reporter for a neighborhood radio stations in Surrey and Sussex.
She later moved into tv, working for BBC South East's Weekend as a co-presenter earlier than climbing up the ranks at CNN.
In 1993, the mum-of-two joined GMTV (Good Morning Britain's predecessor) as an leisure correspondent.
Inside 5 years, she was made a major anchor on the ITV breakfast present.
Fiona introduced her closing episode in 2008 earlier than being made a daily stand in for Lorraine Kelly on her each day morning present, Lorraine.
However she has not labored for a yr, after being 'overcome' by her crippling menopause signs.
Fiona instructed The Mirror it has left her "racked with anxiousness" and "a shadow" of her former self.
She believes the foundation reason behind her 'mind fog', which leaves victims confused, with fuzzy ideas and poor focus, is as a result of new fixed worry she is experiencing a results of her hormones.
The journalist and tv star, who's married to This Morning editor Martin Frizell, additionally worries for her thoughts after caring for each her now-late mother and father as they battled Alzheimer’s illness.
Martin is alleged to have urged his spouse to get in contact with Dr Louise Newson after she appeared on This Morning final week.
Elevating consciousness of the menopause, Dr Newson harassed through the eye-opening section that signs of the menopause is way over "sizzling flushes".
She mentioned it may possibly have an effect on reminiscence, focus, and trigger melancholy and anxiousness. Dr Newson added that some girls are even satisfied they've dementia as a result of they're affected so badly.
"I converse to so many ladies who're in actual disaster with their psychological well being," she added. "A whole lot of these girls have been misdiagnosed with different signs as a result of, as heath care professionals, we regularly have not had the appropriate coaching."
Greater than 7,000 girls had been mentioned to have contacted This Morning after Dr Newson held a viewers' phone-in later within the present.
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