Title: The 5 Emotional Stages Of Christmas — Excitement Through Depression
Headings: The 5 Emotional Stages Of Christmas — Excitement Through Depression
The 5 Emotional Stages Of Christmas — Excitement Through Depression
Anticipation
Excitement
Satisfaction
Weakness
Depression

Content: As you kick back and reflect on the morning’s events, hugging your new fuzzy blanket against your chest, you realize this is what it’s all about — family, food and fun. You wonder what’s happening in your chest as you feel a weird sensation and then smile later upon realizing that your small heart grew three sizes that day. ( Insert eye-roll on my Grinch reference, but I had to!) Weakness
Must… eat… one… more… cookie. By 3 pm, you are beginning to wither away and have become merely a shell of the person you were this morning. You have been awake for far too long, had way too many cookies and (according to your Mom) “way too much wine.” Doesn’t she know it’s Christmas? Your excited and festive persona has begun to diminish, and you realize it’s been three hours since you’ve moved from the couch. Though your siblings have packed theirs away and straightened up the living room, your gifts are still strewn about, wrapping paper still stuck to the sides, and somehow, you’ve managed to get a sticky Christmas bow stuck in your hair. You start to panic that this day is half over and the Christmas spirit you’ve enjoyed for the past month is beginning to wane.