Blues from the holidays through Valentine’s Day: Four tips for beating winter blahs
Americans in general run one frantic gauntlet from Thanksgiving through the first part of the new Year. We tend to overbook the calendar in December… when January hits there's little on the schedule. We overeat, overspend, undersleep, and underappreciate during the holidays… when the New Year arrives, the scale screams, the bills put you in a funk, the alarm seems to come too early and you reflect on relatives you saw but now miss dearly. Then there’s Valentine’s Day, which for some is a lonely time. You're not alone. Call it holiday blues, holiday depression, post-Christmas blues, or winter blahs, these commonly used terms depict the mental distress occurring after the turning of the calendar. This is an entirely common, mild, mental distress. Professionals observe the condition often when people are dealing with daily life stress and change. Here are four ways to rediscover feeling good in 2018. 1) Take some of what made you feel good during the hol...