Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

Is 30 Minutes of Numbness Worth the Cost? #shorts

18 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how alcohol functions as a depressant that can worsen anxiety by influencing hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol. She frames drinking as a cost‑benefit decision: a short period of temporary numbness may seem appealing when facing a difficult situation, but it leads to downstream negative effects including poor sleep, heightened stress hormones, and overall increased anxiety. The speaker questions whether the fleeting relief is truly worth these longer‑term physiological costs.

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Life, life is hard, but I know now because of all of the, the research and the science of what alcohol does, like you were talking about it being a depressant. It also just is so horrible for anxiety, right? And what it does to adrenaline and cortisol and all of these things. So ultimately when you're facing a hard thing, it's a, it's a kind of this cost benefit analysis of do you want the 30 minutes of numbness for everything that comes after that? Right, which is the bad sleep, the increased adrenaline, the depressant. Like, is it truly worth it?