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Hangxiety is a nightmare. If you’ve ever woken up after a night of moderate [or heavy] drinking to a fresh and acute batch of cringe and emotional stress, you’ll be all too familiar with the terrible phenomenon — especially the shame, irritability, and general malaise that can come with it.
One fateful morning after, following a particularly pleasant New Year’s celebration, I spent my brief morning hangover lying in bed, trying to figure out why on Earth alcoholic beverages had ruined my waking emotional state. My friends had just the classic “head and stomach ache” sort of hangover, and I was lying around, feeling healthy as a horse and emotionally distraught. At the moment, I envied the stomach aches. But, with a bit of internet sleuthing, I discovered that it’s a pretty common phenomenon to experience — about 12% of folks endure hangxiety after they drink.
I sleuthed the internet for answers, solutions, and anything that might relieve some of the cortisol bouncing about in my head. On the journey, I came across an anonymous forum comment stating that they were able to cure the feeling with…
