Title: Holiday Depression and Stress: Get Prevention Tips
Headings: Holiday Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Holiday Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Facts you should know about holiday depression, anxiety, and stress
Symptoms of Anxiety
What causes the holiday blues?
Is the environment and reduced daylight a factor in wintertime sadness?
QUESTION
What are risk factors for holiday depression, anxiety, and stress?
What are symptoms and signs of holiday depression, anxiety, and stress?
How do health care professionals diagnose holiday anxiety, stress, and depression?
What kinds of specialists treat holiday depression, anxiety, and stress?
What is the treatment for holiday depression, anxiety, and stress?
SLIDESHOW
What are possible complications from holiday depression, anxiety, and stress?
What is the prognosis for holiday depression, anxiety, and stress?
Is it possible to prevent holiday anxiety, stress, and depression?
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Content: What makes one person feel sad may not affect another person. Typical sources of holiday sadness include
stress,
fatigue,
unrealistic expectations,
overcommercialization,
financial stress,
the inability to be with one's family and friends, and
in addition to sadness, many people feel holiday anxiety or stress, particularly when they feel unable to cope with the demands upon them. Is the environment and reduced daylight a factor in wintertime sadness? Nonhuman animals react to the changing season with changes in mood and behavior. People change behaviors, as well, when there is less sunlight. Most people find they eat and sleep slightly more in wintertime and dislike the dark mornings and short days. For some, however, other symptoms are severe enough to disrupt their lives and cause considerable distress. Sadness or depression at holiday time can be a reaction to the stresses and demands of the season. In other cases, people may feel depressed around the winter holidays due to a condition known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), sometimes referred to as seasonal depression. This is a type of depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter.