Why You Should Never Make Decisions When Tired, Angry, or Under the Influence. — and When would be the best time to make a decision?

When you’re exhausted, angry, or under the influence, you’re not morally weak—you’re biologically compromised. Naturopathically, your body shifts into a fight-or-flight mode where your prefrontal cortex (your “wisdom center”) partially shuts down. Growing up in a household where adults made decisions while exhausted or intoxicated often trained you to associate urgency with instability. You might have learned that decisions “had to” happen in the moment—right when emotions peaked. Many adults still carry that imprint. Conservative Christian psychology explains this as emotional dysregulation passed through modeling. If your childhood environment lacked calm, thoughtful decision-making, you may instinctively recreate it. You may feel unsafe when things are quiet and mistake emotional intensity for importance. But remember: God designed the mind to think clearly and soberly. Scripture repeatedly warns against acting in anger or while clouded by substances because these states distort moral judgment. What feels urgent is often just emotional overload, not truth. The body, meanwhile, is running on fumes—lower oxygen to the brain, unstable blood sugar, tight muscles, shallow breathing. These conditions create a mental fog where clarity cannot live. When your physiology is hijacked, your morality becomes vulnerable. And that’s why the timing of decisions is as important as the decisions themselves.