05/10/2026
If Saturday night was a heavy one, the racing heart, restlessness and low mood you're feeling by Monday can have as much to do with what you drank as with your inbox.
Alcohol calms your nervous system while you're drinking. When it leaves your system, your body overcorrects, and that overcorrection can feel a lot like anxiety: a racing heart, sensitivity to noise, a vague sense that something's wrong. It also disrupts the sleep your brain needs to process the day, so the week often starts with you already running on empty.
Men are more likely to reach for a drink as a way of managing stress, and less likely to connect how they're feeling on Monday to what they drank on Saturday. It becomes "a bad week," rather than something with a clear, physical cause.
This matters for workplaces built around a drinks culture: client entertaining, industry events, the deal that gets closed at the bar rather than the boardroom.
Nobody needs telling to skip the bar after a client dinner. What's more useful is knowing the chemistry behind a rough Monday, so a normally sharp colleague who's flat, irritable or off doesn't just get written off as "not a morning person."
If that's a pattern worth understanding across your team, get in touch about our workplace training.
