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The Christmasholidays that begin in our country (Puerto Rico) a short time before thanksgiving and they culminate with the Three Kings Day, is a time in which the most of the people, childrens and adults they feel, desirous to share what have, they participate in partys and family meetings, to buy and to receive gifts. On the other hand a part of the population experiences feelings of: solitude, anxiety, deep sadness or depression and anguish.

One of my patients, Pretty counted does me some days that each time that itself about the Christmas period experiences feelings of suffering and extreme sadness. "The sad memories of my parents, the to know that them do not I have beside me, my former husband, the love of my life, that well passed it in this time with him. The hours are eternal seated in the sofa, my desire by being among the four walls of my marry larger than visiting my family

Symptoms as them described previously can be sign of a Stationary Depression (Holiday Blues). Multiple causes for this condition exist, that go economic from limitations to give to other, the family tensions (because all has different plans), to the memory of the loss of a to be wanted. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) just like many experts of the world reveal that a sure route toward the stationary depression (SD) is to have some unreal expectations on as should be Christmas, many times the people remains yearning for memories of the past or expecting that the Christmas time be perfect and this enlarges the feelings of melancholy. All we know that the life is not always as we want, but from time to time we forget us of that that we have giving him greater importance to what lack does us.

But that things we can do to handle the symptoms of the Stationary Depression. Subsequently I will share with you my friend reader some recommendations that can help you to enjoy these festivities and to handle the feelings of sadness and anxiety:

• To Offer less importance to the material thing- the pressure of the mass media to buy and to spend they have carried us to think that the ostentatious gifts should form part of our Christmas social milieu. I assure him that their relatives and friendships appreciated more a small detail of their part as a book of self-help, a walk with you that a gift that be costly.

• It Include other- delegate responsibilities to its relatives. Do not try to do it all you, include other so that thus its load be smaller and all be satisfied with the meetings, because was taken in consideration its opinion.

. • It Recall that the past already passed- not itself atormente by the relation that could not be or by that that was proposed and could not achieve. The reality is that no aspect of its past you will be able it to change; so reason to worry about its past, if today can have the control of its present.

• It Try to consume little alcoholic beverages- although we know that the face, the draining and other liquors are typical of this Christmas epoch, recall that the alcohol depresses the central sinewy system and the consumption excessively can cause us to feel depressed.

Recall the true spirit of the Christmas, which begins with the thanksgiving day, (time to thank to God and to the life by the things achieved, but also by those negative things that occurred us during the year since without any doubt something we have learned of them). Good night, (date in it we recall historically the birth of the Boy Jesus that represents a time to give love). The celebration of New Year, is the culmination of a cycle of life and the beginning of a new year, with other projects, with new vigor, forgetting the past and living the Today that is a gift of the tomorrow.

It shares your time with the ones that more you need, carries out a positive action by a stranger. Enjoys with your relatives and friends. Never forget that our attitude is important in the interpretation of what happen us. The happiness does not depend on the events, but, of the form in which we see it. Enjoys this season with your beloved beings. Happinesses!.