'It was so hard to untangle the cycle.'
Millie started drinking when she first went to university A former ‘party girl’ with constant ‘hangxiety’ says she’s happier than ever after going sober at 26. After starting university as a fresh-faced 18-year-old, Millie Gooch, now 32, found herself swept up by the UK university drinking culture. ‘If I told people I wasn’t a drinker, I’d probably be seen as a loser,’ she said. ‘It would’ve been much harder to make friends.’ For many students, alcohol plays a huge part in university life.
’ She soon found herself ‘self-medicating’ with alcohol. ‘It was so hard to untangle the cycle,’ she said. ‘Drinking made me anxious, and I’d cope with it by drinking more.’ This is why you get hangxiety Hangxiety is the dreaded combination of feeling anxious while being hungover, which can be a result of both not knowing what happened and withdrawals from alcohol.
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