Hooray: you can also have a happy tomcat

You can find cats in many shapes and sizes: sometimes you just want to sleep, sometimes you just want McDonald's, and sometimes you just want to stare at the television all day.

But there are also happy hangovers, it turns out. And those have, well, a little less to do with alcohol. A so-called ‘happiness hangover’ is according to psychologists that you are really bummed that something fun is over. That can certainly be a party where the wine flowed freely, but also think of a nice vacation, a weekend away with your love, a cool work event, a wedding, a birthday party, Christmas days, an afternoon shopping with your mother. Actually, you can get a hangover from anything. fun things in your life. From something you were looking forward to. When that is over, you feel a bit blue. You feel lost and it feels like you have no purpose in your life anymore. You feel a bit sick. You are sluggish, have no motivation, you comfort yourself with a milkshake and a hamburger... Damn, it really feels like a hangover. I told you so.

Recognizable? For me it is. Suddenly I want it to be Saturday night again on a Sunday afternoon, because it was so much fun. Suddenly I want to go back to that lovely Lisbon, because it was so romantic with Billy. Suddenly I want to go back to my big thirtieth birthday party. Suddenly I want to go back to the birth of my children and to all those days after, those first days of being a mother. I want to go back to Parc Broekhuizen and my most beautiful wedding day, back to Hawaii and my honeymoon. It can't be, but still. Those moments were so beautiful. I would love to relive all of this for just a day. But the party is over and I only have the memories left. And the photos.

Maybe it's even worse than a hangover from just wine. This is a kind of homesickness where you can't go back home, so to speak. Well, according to experts, it's good to immediately plan something new – something fun too – if you're suffering from this type of hangover. Even if it's not for a few weeks: the anticipation is a big part of the fun. So if you don't have a vacation in sight yet? Book it. Organize that party. Arrange that night away with friends. Because that's the only way to get over that happy hangover.

Alright then. Quickly another weekend away with my husband, quickly get married again, have many more babies. And let me not forget that vanilla milkshake. Just because it's already a hangover.

Source: Psychology Today