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Four simple steps to beating the holiday blues
Unhappy Holidays
While holidays are supposed to be the happiest time of the year, many people experience deep sadness, anxiety, and stress during this time.
The added pressure of financial obligations and the cold weather further affect our state of mind.
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Unhappy Holidays
While holidays are supposed to be the happiest time of the year, many people experience deep sadness, anxiety, and stress during this time.
The added pressure of financial obligations and the cold weather further affect our state of mind.
Be Social
Staying in isolation and hibernating at home can make you sad.
Try to get out and meet people, as socializing can be a remedy to sadness.
Just Go Exercise
While your mind may cook up excuses, it is a fact that any kind of exercise, even walking for a short while will make you feel better, and will increase your heart rate. It is even better with friends, at the gym, with music on.
Avoid Social Media
Change Your Thinking
- Go back to being in charge of your life.
- The way to bring abundance and happiness in your life is to be a giver.
- Do what you want instead of feeling obliged to do something you don't want and feel miserable about it.
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Depression During Holidays
Holidays are supposed to be a happy time, but many people feel sadness due to heightened expectations, family rifts and comparison with others.
FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
Our cause of sadness is often related to the fact that we compare our lives with the lives o the people we follow and that seem to be having loads of fun on social media
Try to avoid social media during holidays and during mandatory social gatherings. Also, avoid gatherings that drain your energy.
Creating Your Happiness
Negative emotions can sap us from the inside. Create your happiness by observing and learning from your negativity by using self-awareness
Brighten your day by being generous, providing funds to the needy, holiday gifting to the poor, or doing some volunteer work.
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Using Therapy
Many people believe therapy is something you need when you are not satisfied, happy or content with life.
Mental illnesses go far beyond being happy or sad, and many people that don't think they need therapy may, in fact, be in acute need of it.
Happy Pills
- It’s a myth that mental health and happiness mean the same thing.
- Happiness is just another emotional state, like sadness.
- Depression is portrayed as not being happy, which is untrue.
- The pill-popping generations label anti-depressant pills as Happy Pills, which is also misleading.
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