Mum drank a bottle of wine every night, until she found out why

Sarah discovered the reason for her daily drinking, and her weekend binges - and found a way to stop

A mum who spent years drinking every night to take the edge off now believes her wine habit was actually a way of coping with an undiagnosed condition. Sarah Lloyd relied on booze to get through high-pressure days at work – drinking most evenings and bingeing at weekends just to feel “normal”.

From the outside, the mum-of-two from Hampshire looked successful, climbing the ladder into global corporate PR roles. But behind closed doors, the 48-year-old was battling crippling anxiety, burnout and daily shame after years of drinking to keep up the mask.

“Drinking at first was always about fitting in,” she said. “I could never have one or two. I would binge on weekends and my job mean