Dr. Colin O'Gara

You know, when mothers in particular would come to see me and I'm offering the possibility of them coming into hospital for 28 days to take part in a rehab programme, I would get a look which would be like, are you serious?

50% of the people we would see here are women.

We have mothers, I would say, in the vast, you know, so many of the cases that we see from the female population and mothers at different stages.

So it would be young mothers, mothers with older kids and then grandparents.

Working closely with mothers of young kids in particular, it's an incredibly stressful job.

It's an incredibly isolating situation and it can be, you know, I think the origins of wine o'clock probably are split between, you know, women who are going out working in the workplace and then coming home to all kinds of pressures, but also women who are at home

in the home place working a difficult job in the home and then having the pressure valve release in the evening at some stage.

Such monotony with both certain jobs but also the home life that the wine o'clock scenario really presents

um a very very uh attractive pressure valve for a lot of people i mean i do think pressures have increased and i think a lot of that has been come through these unrealistic expectations on social media and no doubt around uh women new mothers um and you know the expectations of what you're supposed to be doing and this is what we see is that it would start with um a glass of

you know, wine or two in the evening, gradually escalating to a bottle, more so at weekends, and then it, you know, becoming a daily thing.

We see that every day of the week here in our clinic.