Kate Lawler Shares Emotional Update on Perimenopause and Getting Help

Kate Lawler gave an emotional update on her battle with the mental health symptoms of perimenopause on Tuesday and revealed she is ‘getting help.’

The presenter, 45, bravely opened up about her ‘turbulent’ time during a recent interview and admitted that she has been ‘masking’ her true feelings as she broke down in tears. 

Giving an update to her Instagram, Kate thanked her fans for their supported and promised to be back to her ‘old self’ soon.  

Speaking in the clip, she said: ‘A lot of people saw the video about how mental and sad I feel. I cannot believe how many people reached out offering love and support so thank you.

‘I’m so grateful for all of your messages. Apologies if I haven’t got around to getting back to you all.

‘I’m shocked at how many other women are going through perimenopause and not getting the correct support or being incorrectly prescribed antidepressants or not being given HRT or being denied it.’

Kate continued: ‘The system feels like it’s flawed snd more needs to be done. I don’t want to be that person who constantly moans. 

‘This used to be a fun place, this Instagram account. I used to have a laugh. But I’m going to get back to being my old self soon. I promise. 

‘I’m getting help. I had a blood test. I have zero testosterone. I’ve got really low oestrogen despite taking HRT. So, I’m upping that, I’m starting testosterone. I’m going to get better, I will get better, and I will get back to being my old self. 

‘But to anyone out there who is struggling, go and see your GP and get help. We are in this together.’ 

‘I’m going to go and look for my yoga mat now because I’ve lost it. I also lost my car keys. Walked straight past my house, forgot where I lived. Four houses down, I was like, “this isn’t my house.”‘

Last week, Kate couldn’t hold back her tears as she admitted to claiming she is OK when she isn’t as she spoke to Dr. Naomi Potter on her Is It Hot in Here? podcast. 

The former Big Brother star explained how she has ‘anxiety’ and feels ‘powerless’ as she just wants to be ‘the person I was before’. 

Breaking down in tears, Kate openly discussed her health, saying: ‘I get emotional talking about it. I always feel like it’s exhausting because having the job that I have, I constantly have to mask, I’m okay.’

She continued: ‘At the moment, I just feel like I’m not. I feel like I’m a nightmare to live with – I feel sorry for my husband.

‘I feel like I’m powerless and questioned everything I do, like, does anyone like me? Do my friends? I feel so lost with who I am.

It was when she looked back at videos from ‘a couple of years ago’ on her Instagram, and saw ‘how happy’ she was that it ‘really hit’ her.

She continued: ‘I looked at Instagram videos and saw how happy I was and I feel like I’ve changed so much and I just thought, you know what? I wish I could just be the person I was.

‘The anxiety I have, its health anxiety I’m so scared to even drink alcohol and since I’ve had a kid I’m so scared.’

Dr. Potter told Kate that she doesn’t ‘have to feel like this’, but the mother-of-one admitted she’s reluctant to go on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) – the traditional treatment for perimenopause.

‘I wish I just wasn’t so funny about the HRT, like, I wish I just listened to the menopause doctor’, she said. 

Instead, Kate uses oestrogen-based moisturiser, because she’s ‘scared’ of HRT. 

She added: ‘I’m also reluctant to taking anti-depressants and I’m reluctant because I’m like this is how I feel now until I’m through menopause.

‘I go home and I cry and we mask it. I do feel like the patches I felt better than the cream but they don’t stay on and I can’t remember to change them twice a week. 

‘I felt better on the patches and then the boob pain scared me so came off it but, yeah. 

‘I just want to feel happy again and I want my husband to have the person he married to come back. It is a turbulent time, I think I know best but I should listen to professionals, social media is a mind field. 

‘I didn’t take HRT because I was so scared from everything that I’ve seen and then you meet someone on it and your like ‘oh yes’. 

Dr. Potter shared the podcast on Instagram and several fans and famous faces including Zoe Ball and Anna Williamson said she is not alone.