You wake up. Your head throbs. Then comes the second wave: a low, gnawing horror at what you might have done.<\/p>\n
You scroll back through last night’s messages, certain you said something wrong. <\/p>\n
You replay conversations worried you offended someone, embarrassed yourself, or both.<\/p>\n
“It’s that nagging feeling of dread,” says 25-year old Eleanor Tobin who works in marketing and events in London.<\/p>\n
“If the day starts with me doing a checklist of my things – panically checking I have my bag, my phone – I know the anxiety is going to seep into everything I do beyond just reliving the night before.”<\/p>\n
This is hang-xiety, a name coined in social slang a decade ago, for the anxiety that can accompany a hangover.<\/p>\n
And yes, it is real.<\/p>\n
“Alcohol affects the body in many ways – the brain, sleep, hormones and nervous system – that all help explain why a night out drinking can be followed by an excessively anxious morning,” says Celia Morgan, professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You wake up. Your head throbs. Then comes the second wave: a low, gnawing horror at what you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-873401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}