A fun, booze-fuelled outing can soon turn to feelings of embarrassment, regret, and anxiety when you wake up the next morning and realise your memories of the night are patchy.
It’s the dreaded hangover anxiety — otherwise known as hangxiety — and a new Australian study has now found out who is more susceptible to the jitters after a night on the booze.
Research from the Swinburne Centre for Mental Health and Brain Science found people prone to anxiety or low mood in their daily lives — or those who drink to cope with stress — experience hangxiety more intensely.
Co-author Blair Aitken said this was not because hangovers create new problems, but because alcohol temporarily dulled negative emotions.
“People that have a high baseline of shyness or anxiety are often drinking to improve th