Was that something that your peers or the university or also your GP training, was that something that was addressed that you could relate to?

There is a lot of drug use amongst our peers.

We have a 10 to 12% career risk, just like the normal public, of using something to help soothe our anxieties.

Whether that's alcohol, especially expensive malt whiskeys because we've got disposable income.

Whether that's sleeping tablets, Valium, Diazepam.

And we can use that to help us quieten our monkey minds because we are overthinkers.

We are perfectionists.

Thank you so much.

So if you're looking back at your early career, and you're happy to share kind of how, how your relationship, I believe was it alcohol and drugs that you were addicted to, how that kind of developed and, you know, whether there was a point at which you realized that this has gone beyond the coping mechanisms that other people might be employing.

Okay.

So it was difficult being the clever kid at school.

I got bullied quite a lot.

These adverse childhood events led to me being wired and fired and predisposed to abnormal coping mechanisms.

When I discovered alcohol, it was a case of instant asshole, just add alcohol.

I was a liability.

Will you tell us a bit more about, about that when you, when you did seek help and what that looked like kind of logistically and how it, how it worked out?

So if you're looking back at your early career, you're happy to share kind of how your relationship, I believe, was it alcohol and drugs that you were addicted to, how that kind of developed and, you know, whether there was a point at which you realised that this has gone beyond the coping mechanisms that other people might be employing.

Okay.

So it was difficult being the clever kid at school.

I got bullied quite a lot.

These adverse childhood events led to me being wired and fired and predisposed to abnormal coping mechanisms.

When I discovered alcohol, it was a case of instant arsehole just add alcohol.

I was a liability.

Will you tell us a bit more about that when you did seek help and what that looked like kind of logistically and how it worked out?