According to statistics, the most dangerous period for depression - after the New Year holidays. Why there is depression and what to do to you it is not touched after the New Year?
New year everyone is waiting with trepidation. In the New Year's Eve we make a wish and believe that the magical chimes in a moment turn our life into a fairy tale. Only after the holidays, instead of joy, we feel weakness and depression. Before the new year, many feel a surge of strength and desire to "turn off the mountains." But after the holidays, feasts and trips to visit, hands down, or do anything you do not want.
Why, after the New Year, people become depressed? After all, it would seem - around fun, gifts, happy faces, a lot of positive emotions, meeting with friends and family... Where will the bad mood? However, the fun goes out of the Christmas tinsel on a surface are everyday problems. After the pre-noise, which exhausts psychologically and physically undue miracle expectations of wonders and as the global financial spending before the holidays, people understand that squeezed like a lemon - not the strength and purse empty...
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Swedish researchers conducted a study and found that the risk of getting myocardial infarction increase dramatically during the holiday season compared to other holidays. Blame - the stress and bustle. Also increases the risk of falling into depression.
But if you think that the New Year should be banned as a dangerous special holiday, do not deny yourself the pleasure of extra days off. The holiday is not to blame. Among the reasons that people fall into depression, post-holiday release:
- New Year romanticization and belief in miracles;
- lack of finance and a hole in the budget after the holidays;
- solitude - during the holidays is keenly felt;
- the use of alcohol, which increases the bad mood;
- overeating - contributes to chronic diseases
How not to get depressed after the New Year?
Do not have any illusions. Pragmatically? What to do? If you do not want to earn his spleen after the holidays, you do not need to count on the fact that at 12 o'clock arrive fairy with bag of money and turn a pumpkin into a carriage. We create a miracle with their own hands. A New Year's Eve - the same day as the other 365 days of the year.
Not to build Napoleon's plans. As practice shows, on New Year's resolutions to forget immediately, as soon as the tree is removed. Therefore, in order not to be disappointed in yourself, do not let the big promises. Break into small global intact and give yourself the right to error.
Do not overeat. Eating junk food, from which burst with banquet tables, according to the research increases the risk of depression by 40%. to holidays «We did not come out sideways» - exacerbation of chronic diseases, drink plenty of water, and between holidays arrange a fasting daysBy eating healthy foods. A balanced diet will help to saturate the body with beneficial vitamins and minerals that affect mood.
Active rest. If you spend all the holidays around the TV or at the dinner table, you will not be typed impressions that reboot your brain. Psychologists advise to leave the house and active rest: skiing, skating, snowball fights, sledding - cheer up. Best holiday - a change of activity.
Walk on the street. Hatch within four walls and you will after the holidays in the office. Use the weekend to saturate the body with oxygen.
Do good deeds. It is proved that the charity makes a person happy. If your life is a miracle in the New Year's Eve did not happen, you can become a magician for others.
Celebrate their means. Yes, at the moment of your finances do not have to celebrate "on a grand scale». Nothing wrong! Better to celebrate modestly than six months to repay debts for the New Year holidays.
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