A hangover is communication. Like pain. It's telling us something about something deeper going on beneath the surface. An over-stimulant of some kind that is extra-ordinary to the every day functioning of the mind and body.

When I heard Brene Brown talk about a vulnerability hangover I drew a parallel to the effects of socialising or over-arousal on introverts and highly sensitive people. We may well suffer this kind of reaction and and not realise why. Perhaps we just think it's us being us. We're tired, we're weak, we're an insomniac, depressed, anxious, irritable, sad or whatever.

But as Newton's 3rd law says: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Things catch up with you. For introverted beings it is natural that there is a reaction that takes place when we act in the opposite way to where we regain energy.

In this episode I look at 7 mistakes that I've made in responding unknowingly to social hangovers:

1. Don’t Make Big Decisions

2. Don’t ‘Plough On Regardless'

3. Don’t Be Hard On Yourself

4. Don’t Quit

5. Don’t Compare Yourself to Others

6. Don’t Leave Your Comfort Zone for a While

7. Don’t All the Hangover to Define the Memory