Should I feel embarassed when I get drunk?
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Should I feel embarassed when I get drunk?
Alcohol reduces the amount of “anti-diruectic” hormones in your body, meaning it lets your body rid itself of much more water than it does when you’re sober. Your bathroom breaks are leaving you dehydrated. The effects of dehydration in the body lead to more than thirstiness and headaches — it can also lead to faintness, dizziness and confusion. Those feelings can churn up anxiety as your body tries to protect itself from harm. The more drowsy and sick the alcohol makes you feel, the more your body is going to release cortisol to amp up its defenses. Drinking water between drinks can help combat extreme loss of water and in return, reduce risk of anxiety.
It’s not that something necessarily bad happened, it’s just that the potential is there. You have to piece together the parts of the evening where something could have gone wrong, where you might have said something you might regret, or you may have simply drank too much and made a fool of yourself. “The feeling of guilt when a person wakes up the next day after a night of drinking is part of the psychological disconnect a person can experience,” Sally Baker, a licensed therapist in London, told INSIDER.