The anxiety, and you've got a medical bit, haven't you?

Yes.

That you're going to read out.

Yeah, because Lucy and I do believe that there is a medical side and there is also an emotional side to this.

So I'm just going to read you the medical side of what's going on inside you when you overdrink. When you drink alcohol, two things in your brain are affected, glutamate, which

makes your brain more active and gabber, which makes your, where are we, which makes your brain

less active. With every drink, glutamate decreases and gabber increases,

chilling you out, lowering your inhibitions and slowing your reaction time, and causing you

basically to work in slow-mo. The next day, as alcohol leaves your system, your brain works

to get the balance back to be normal, but it overcompensates.

Glutamate spikes making your brain hyperactive, which is a brilliant way of describing how the brain is when you're hung over.

My brain was so hyperactive.

While Gabba, which would normally calm you down, is suppressed.

So you've got no control about what's

going on in your head. The reason some people get it and some people don't depends on so many

factors. But no matter why, who, when or how, let's just start by saying it is normal to have

anxiety. It's your body doing what it should be doing. It's a very common side effect of being a drinker. That's not to say it's okay because when you're deep in it, anxiety or anxiety can feel like that living nightmare you were talking about, Lucy. Yeah, so they're the things that are happening in the brain that actually make you feel physically awful and depressed. And on top of that, you've got this headache. Yeah. You feel sick.

You're physically unwell. Yeah. It's more the emotional side. So the first one here, we've got

what causes anxiety for us. It was that. It was the cringe behavior, wasn't it, Lucy? It was like,

what did I do? Oh, God, some of the things that I got up to, I've written in there in big red letters, Lucy, sex, because I know we haven't had the proper sex discussion yet, but like those one night stands when you're in a blackout and then the guy's gone by the time you wake up and you lie in bed thinking maybe with scratches on your back or maybe some weird bruise on your bottom.

And even worse when the guy's still there.

Yes, even worse.

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