As a college freshman, the only lesson I learned from the whole experience was the fact I can no longer discuss Goldschlager nor look at the liquor inside the bottle without feeling the need of having to vomit once more. They are debilitating, sickening and most of all remind us how stupid it was to drink so heavily the night before.
Hangovers Are A Sign That You Have Reached Your Limit
Once you reach the top and start your way down you cannot go back. You should also figure out what your limit in drinking is as well. When this occurs, you need to decide on your own limits or boundaries for what you can ingest. Creating a limit for yourself is one of the most positive and responsible things you can do as a social drinker. There were other drinking binges as well, but these two incidents burned into my memory.
By creating this essential boundary, you are making yourself responsible and understand that one simply cannot have a seemingly endless amount of alcohol consumption without a hangover or potentially serious consequences. It is like a rollercoaster ride in the sense that you are traveling up a hill slowly.
After experiencing a life altering hangover, many individuals will decide that they just shouldn't drink. Maybe my experiences are completely different than yours. I feel asleep feeling nauseated and of course, woke up the next day with a hangover. For example, I know right now that I can never consume Goldschlager ever again.
Facing The Hangover Head On
For hangovers, it can be the difference of having a hangover experience or not having one. Drinking orange juice will manually pump any extra alcohol in your stomach out through vomiting and will prevent your hangover from getting any worse. Once you have had a full glass of water, you may start to vomit all of the alcohol you have consumed throughout the night. Hopefully, you are reading this and stating to yourself, "That has happened to me.
Quickly replenishing your body of fluids will help you recover from your "dehydrated state" faster. " If this has happened to you, then you know that horrible feeling of despair that consumes you when you are in the midst of a hangover. Climbing out of my top bunk bed, I staggered down the ladder and started towards the door. Literally, 10 repeats of this incident, I finally was able to fall back asleep. Once you realize that you are experiencing a hangover, you should turn off all of the lights in the room. Most people will find these three things to be invaluable tools aiding them in their hangover recovery.
Find Your Sanctuary Especially in the Midst of a Hangover
If a friend is with you, they can help you look at yourself objectively and figure out these important aspects to your drinking behavior and/or your hangover recovery. While it may seem over the top to have a friend monitor you while you recover from a hangover, I cannot stress this enough that it is absolutely essential especially when you are recovering from an obviously high amount of alcohol consumption. Excessive alcohol consumption can give people alcohol poisoning, so it is completely necessary to have a friend stay with you while you recover. As we discussed earlier, these aspects are essential to understanding your body and your hangovers.
If you have a friend kind enough to stay with you while you recover, you should make sure that they understand exactly what they should be looking for while you recover.
After the Hangover: When You Need Shelter From The Storm
As we have discussed in previous sections, analyzing why and how a hangover was caused is essential to preventing them from happening in the future. Once you have realized the mechanism for how you wound up so hung over, you must then address what worked for you in your hangover state. Those who reflect on their experience tend to not repeat it in the future. Hangovers are embarrassing, debilitating, frustrating and simply heinous.
There are many ways to prevent them through analyzing your body chemistry and the way you interact with specific and general types of alcohol, through creating boundaries or limitations of what you can drink, and by figuring out your personal "point of no return" when you have had too much to drink.
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