Anyone else suffer from ‘Social Hangovers’?

[DannyOD]

I suffer from depression and have done for many years. I suppose I am what you would call a ‘functioning depressive’. However, after ANY social event, even if I have real been looking forward to it, I feel awful the next day. Seriously down, weepy and lost. Does anyone else get this?

Yes, but then I'm autistic so hardly a surprise.

This is my life and then I dread seeing the people again just in case I acted like a dick (regardless if I had 1 drink or 10!)

I get social hangovers just as a result of being an introvert, so at the end of every day I'm having to mend.

For me the worst thing is when I feel I’ve done my bit on the socialist front and someone asks me for a lift or hangs about at my house - I just want them gone and I tend to find myself being very flat with them

Yes! - because I've psyched myself up to hold it together for the required amount of time, and then I've got nothing left. I even get this with the school run when I've done the playground, then find I'm walking down the road with someone I know who's going my way and they want to chat. Even if I like them I'm thinking "please go away please go away"

I've actually been known to hide or pretend I was going a different way, to avoid having to have a chat all the way back.

On bad days I avoid people, even friends if I see them in a supermarket or somewhere. If I bump into someone randomly, I have anxiety over the conversation and play it over. If it is a social event, the conversations drain me and I feel exhausted afterwards. That is on a bad day. On a good day, I am fine. Chatty, friendly, quite outgoing.
Whether I have a good or bad day

Sorry posted too early. Whether I have a bad or good day cannot be planned really. Eating healthily, being sociable, productive etc help me have a good day. Or maybe I do those things because I am having a good day. Who knows?! The bad days can be awful.

Yes, I do. I call it being, "peopled out".

Matt but if you find socialising exhausting, that may partly be because you feel anxious about it or bad at it. (Definitely so in my case.) . So the replaying it and torturing myself afterwards goes along with the exhaustion.

This is me all over.