Do You Know What Emotional Hangovers Are And How To Overcome Them?
What happens when we drink too much alcohol? The next day, with no chance of escape, we suffered a terrible hangover. However, it seems that alcohol is not the only one capable of causing a hangover. According to several researches carried out by neuroscientists at New York University, there are also emotional hangovers, experiences produced by very intense emotions, which shake us and intoxicate us.
The obligatory question is: can we avoid them? The truth is, we can’t. Emotional hangovers are profoundly intense states resulting from unexpected emotional experiences that can even influence the memory of later events and provoke some physical symptoms such as headaches, back pain and tiredness or fatigue.
Emotional hangovers are inevitable
Although we wish to have control over everything around us, this is impossible. There are always things that happen unexpectedly. It can be a job layoff, the death of a relative, an unplanned pregnancy, the discovery of an illness, a family debt or any situation that was not in our plans…
All of this will make us experience very intense emotions that can lead to states of stress, depression, anxiety and even panic attacks.
These unexpected and intense emotions generate a big hangover that most of the time we are not aware of, but that affect in one way or another our thoughts and our attention and memory processes.
Thus, the marks of emotional hangovers remain on our body and our state of mind. They are an example of how everything that is experienced is reflected beyond just the moment it happens.
At the same time, just like alcohol hangovers, emotional hangovers come to an end. However, it may happen that, instead of minimizing them, we end up continually feeding them if we submit to situations that wear us out emotionally or if we simply don’t want to leave the comfort zone in which we find ourselves. Victimization is a good example of a permanent emotional hangover.
How to minimize the impact of emotional hangovers?
Why can an emotional hangover voluntarily linger? Why can you make us become victims? When we have a hangover we feel bad, and when we feel bad, everything around us becomes dark and negative. It’s the same thing that happens when we’re depressed and suddenly we don’t see the world in color anymore, we start seeing it in black and white.
As we have already seen, emotional hangovers can contribute to us feeling sad, depressed or distressed, which will be present in our perception of reality. The important thing is to be aware that the impact of an intense experience for us can affect us and generate discomfort.
The duration of emotional hangovers can be a few hours or even more than a day. It all depends on the person who feels it, their ability to cope and their willingness to move forward in the vortex of emotions that affect them without warning.
That’s why it ‘s very important to learn to stay calm when we’re on the brink of the abyss, and to avoid making any important decisions while the hangover lasts if we don’t want to grieve in the future. Because, if we don’t manage to act like this, that project that is so important to us could fall apart or we could miss out on great opportunities. So, being aware of our emotional hangovers will be the best warning to put off any major decision that affects our life.
Finally, we want to clarify that emotional hangovers are experiences that we all live at some point in our lives. With the fast pace of life in which we live every day, we are more subjected to them. We can see its trail if we observe how situations that cause us very intense emotions later influence our decisions and our experiences.
Taking a break, taking a break and taking a break to disconnect from the outside and connect with yourself will help us overcome the hangovers that sometimes make us so bad.
