Why do we have holiday blues?
1. HAVING TOO MUCH ‘COMPARISON SHOPPING.’
- Comparing your holidays with others
- Comparing our lives to unrealistic representation
- Comparing this Christmas with the past – before the divorce, before the children, when in love, when mother was still alive, when we were younger
2. Loneliness.
Do you know you can still feel lonely even when you have families and friends around you if you don’t feel connected with them? Loneliness is the lack of connection to others
- Not having a family around you this time of the year can make you feel like a leper, no matter how much you claim you like the time to yourself.
3. STRESS IS HIGHER.
- We tend to have more things on the to-do list. More get together, more gifts to buy, more meals to plan, more people to see, more cleaning to do and so on..
- We tend to drink more alcohol and eat less discriminately. Both of these can lead to sluggishness and disrupted sleeping patterns, so we aren’t even well equipped to deal with the stress.
4. END OF YEAR ANXIETY LEADS TO NEGATIVE THINKING.
We are focusing on what is missing from life in the face of the false cheer around us.
Gratitude goes out of the window suddenly if we don’t have:
a)the right relationship
b)the right house to have our relatives visit
c)the proper income to go somewhere hot instead.
With New Year’s pending,