Brenda Dennehy

But there's been a lot going on since that.

But for how I start all of my podcasts, Rachel Ford, can you tell me where you grew up and what was it like?

Yeah, okay.

Especially what was going to happen years down the line.

We know isolation is the worst thing in the world when it comes to addiction.

Tell me, at what age did you try your first drink or drug?

And then when you were in school as a teenager, was it a case like many of us would have gone out the weekends, gone to the disco, drank?

Yeah.

Like normally, like all your other friends.

Or were you kind of, did you ever find yourself drinking more than your friends or drinking faster?

Just sniffing them.

And can I ask, what was the pain from, Rachel?

Do you know back then what it was?

You probably didn't know at the time, but in later years you figure out what it was.

A chemical imbalance.

And you know what the thing is, and you'll hear people, and even on Neil's show, and they go back sometimes kind of saying, oh, there has to be trauma.

For some people, there's no trauma.

Like for some people, there's no trauma.

And that's okay too.

Like as you were saying, you were born with it.