Psychology of a Hangover
For me it can be a very dark thing having a hangover. No matter how slight a hangover will make me feel negative. In the extreme I have nightmares. It is odd how I can go from thinking I’ve wasted my life on Monday to being happy & upbeat on Wednesday. Tuesday being a mid state of nagging doubt being slowly suffocated by growing optimism.
To think ‘I wasted my life’ isn’t even the most extreme thought. Back in my heavy drinking period I thought about death a lot. The strange thing is this all seemed very normal at the time. Even now I have to tell myself that it’s just a hangover as these thoughts seem so normal when I am having them.
As noted above it takes 3 days to feel normal again. So consider this, if I have two evenly spaced drinking sessions twice a week when is it that I get to feel normal? Hungover paranoia becomes the new normal.
And people tell you alcohol isn’t a drug!
