Episode Details

Julie Ravitsky was 21, sitting cross-legged on her parents' dining room floor at 10am, drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes. Within hours she was in a psychiatric hospital being restrained and sedated. She would end up there twice before her 22nd birthday.

The doctors called it drug-induced psychosis. Nobody asked what was actually happening in her life. Nobody asked about the London trading floor where she smoked at her desk, drank at her desk, and watched colleagues sneak off for cocaine. Nobody asked if she was okay.

Decades later, Julie is a business psychologist with five years sober. The road there was long: ten years on antipsychotics, a marriage, two kids, and the kind of nightly wine habit that looked completely normal from the outside.

You'll hear about: 90s trading floor drinking culture; what really sat underneath two psychiatric hospitalisations; grey area wine mom drinking; closing her business to change her environment and quit drinking; what 5 years sober actually feels like.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.

www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle

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