Melanie Sykes reveals she is suffering from ‘Post-Traumatic Growth’

Melanie Sykes has shared a positive health update and revealed she was suffering from ‘Post-Traumatic Growth’ on Friday.

The former TV presenter, 55, took to Instagram and told fans how she was ‘vibrating high’ after ‘transcending trauma’ amid her battle with an autoimmune condition that’s left her ‘two-thirds bald’ and with excessive inflammation all over her body.

Post-Traumatic Growth is the positive psychological change that some individuals experience after a life crisis or traumatic event. 

She said: ‘Even the most difficult times do pass, they do, and I just want to use this term post traumatic growth, its real, you can be suffering from PTSD but still at the same time be experiencing post traumatic growth,’ 

‘I’m in both camps because you can be both things at once, as long as I attend to myself and what makes me happy and feel grief about whatever has gone on and process it and move on from it’.

Before adding: ‘We can transcend all trauma, we can be changed, and I am living f******g proof of that!’.

She captioned the post: ‘Hello you beautiful people, sharing my high vibes today, Love always, Melanie x’.

The star, who was the face of the Boddingtons Bitter beer advert in the mid 90s, first gave an insight into her hair loss in April and showed her side profile, where she pointed out a bald spot on her head.

She said the photo was taken whilst she was in London, investigating some health issues.

‘I am experiencing alopecia and heart issues due to all that has happened over the last few months. PTSD, shock, mistreatment and malpractice,’ the former TV star revealed.

Last week Melanie urged fans not to ‘worry about her’ amid her health woes, peaking in a lengthy update to Instagram, she later insisted that despite everything she has ‘learnt to take of herself’ and is ‘healing myself’.

She said: ‘Life is so good, and I know it because I’m right here right now and there’s nothing to fear. There is nothing to fear.

‘The more I tune into faith, and believing that all is well because it is, because I’m experiencing it, so I know that it is, that it’ll only get better.’ 

Melanie said she would rather not speak about her illness all the time and added: ‘We don’t need to bring that to the conversation.’

She continued: ‘It’s not like I’m hiding it, I’d just rather have conversation about something else because I’ve got that down and I’m healing myself. 

‘Worry about yourselves, if anything, and I don’t even mean worry about yourselves, I just mean attend to your own spiritual garden, yourself, your body, your mind, your creative spirit.

‘Don’t worry about me, I’ve got me, I’ve always got me, I’ve learned to really take care of myself in the last two years.’

Melanie revealed in a clip shared to Instagram on Sunday that she is also living with excessive inflammation all over her body.

Wearing a jumper, jacket, scarf and hat, Melanie took to her social media to explain that she has been ‘living a spiritual existence’ and encouraged people to start meditating as she tried to remain positive. 

She said: ‘I’m not well, as you know, I’ve been ill all year, I’ve got an autoimmune condition, I am losing my hair, I keep having crazy inflammation all over and I am working on healing.

‘In the last three months, I’ve done a meditation teacher training course. I was too ill to finish it like literally the last two days of it I couldn’t do, it’s a meditation teacher training, I don’t necessarily want to teach, but I can do…

‘Mostly I’ve been living a very, very very spiritual existence.’ 

Alongside the clip, she penned: ‘It’s been a while I have ignited my YouTube channel again after a long period of learning, meditating and healing (this is ongoing.) Remember I love you always.’