- If you’ve ever woken up after a night of drinking and felt a surge of anxiety, you’ve experienced “hangxiety.”
- Though it has a cute name, hangover anxiety is anything but cute, resulting in distressing physical and mental symptoms that can happen to anyone, even those who don’t normally struggle with anxiety.
- INSIDER talked to a psychologist who explained why anxiety spikes when we’re hungover and how we can minimize these awful feelings.
There are certainly no shortage of ways to deal with a hangover, especially since many of us can relate to the telltale headaches, digestive woes, and fuzzy memories of a night spent enjoying one too many cocktails. But one surprising post-drinking side effect is a phenomenon known as “hangover anxiety,” also known as “hangxiety,” in which you feel elevated signs of anxiety after consuming alcoholic beverages.
Sure, it’s a cute name, but if you’ve ever experienced it, you know it’s not a cute feeling. You wake up with an awful pit in your stomach, frantically checking your phone to scope out the damage. Did you text an ex or upload an embarrassing photo to Instagram? Or worse, call your boss in a drunken fury to let him know how you really feel about the feedback he gave on your last project?See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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