Star of This Morning Alice Beer, who is appearing on The Chase today (December 7), previously opened up about her insomnia that has impacting her for many years.
The television host, who was most known for appearing on Watchdog throughout the 1990s, has served as This Morning’s consumer presenter since 2014. However, during an episode last year, she revealed that she struggles with insomnia.
This Morning star Alice Beer ‘tortured’ by insomnia
While talking to hosts Holly Willoughby and Josie Gibson in 2023, Alice stated she is one of the 20 percent of people who struggle to sleep.
She insisted that she’s never been a “great sleeper,” stating that when she was younger, she never needed “that much sleep” and was always an early bird.
However, after having her twin daughters, Phoebe and Dora, 20 years ago, Alice realised she started to struggle to sleep.
“I know so many women – especially women – who identify with what I’ve been through. It’s not just, ‘Oh I had a bad night last night.’ I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about the chronic, on-going inability to get more than about three or four hours a night,” she explained.
After Holly asked how she managed to function on a daily basis, Alice insisted she managed to on a “certain level” but that it affected “everything”.
She continued: “It affects what you eat – I start eating sugar and put on two stone. It affects how I am in my relationships with people, work colleagues, it affects whether I exercise. It makes you teeter on pre-diabetes, it affects your physical and mental health.”
Describing the issue as “torture,” Alice stated that “all you want is to go to bed and sleep”.
‘I was tearful at the thought that there was something out there’
After trying various treatments from lavender sprays to sleeping tablets, Alice found a solution after “doing it all wrong”.
Just like her twins, Alice realised she could train herself to sleep through the night. After reading a newspaper article about a woman going through something similar, she underwent a six week cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) course called Sleepstation.
Thankfully, the results were successful and she was able to sleep “for the first time in three decades” after liaising with her GP.
“I was tearful at the thought that there was something out there. And I was angry that my GP had never mentioned this to me before, in 20 years on my medical record,” Alice said.
She revealed she has good and bad nights but said she is “winning” after not having to take a sleeping tablet for weeks.
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