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How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« on: December 07, 2018, 01:38:43 pm »
How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
Published Monday 19 November 2018
By Tim Newman   
Fact checked by Paula Field   
A perfect world sees the holiday season filled with love, warmth, and happiness. However, more often, it is crammed with stress, exhaustion, and panic. Here, we offer some advice on how to bring a little calm back to the festive season.

How can we avoid the stress of the festive season?

I know it seems hard to believe, but we are, once again, fast approaching the holiday season.

Although millions of people across the United States and beyond are looking forward to the festivities, it can sometimes leave people feeling jaded and exhausted.

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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2018, 02:01:13 pm »
Stress is self-inflicted. I refuse to believe that holiday activities rival being depth-charged in a submarine.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2018, 02:23:03 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2018, 02:30:44 pm »
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2018, 02:58:55 pm »
Avoid conversation with liberal relatives, and marinate your liver in C2H5OH.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2018, 03:00:19 pm »
Donuts, doggies and kitties.
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2018, 03:19:14 pm »
Turn off your Givadam. People like to "drama up" during the holidays. You don't want to get sucked into their vacuum of joy. They'll just drag you into their dirty hole like a Trapdoor spider. If you can't get away from them, tell them to "turn that frown upside down". If you do that enough, you won't have to be around them.

Yes, I have friends who won't have a Merry Christmas because of the recent death of loved ones. But they aren't the ones despairing about Christmas out in the open.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2018, 03:57:40 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on December 07, 2018, 02:58:55 pm
Avoid conversation with liberal relatives, and marinate your liver in C2H5OH.
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If I had my college liver back I'd take you up on suggestion!
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« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2018, 04:04:26 pm »
   Being the only NT'er in my family, I'm switching to heroin this year to cope this season.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2018, 04:12:01 pm »
Quote from: Freya on December 07, 2018, 03:00:19 pm
Donuts, doggies and kitties.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2018, 04:33:50 pm »
Work will free your mind.
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« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2018, 04:41:36 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on December 07, 2018, 03:57:40 pm
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I don't know about yours, but my liver graduated Summa Cum Lager.  :beer:
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« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2018, 04:47:44 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on December 07, 2018, 04:41:36 pm
I don't know about yours, but my liver graduated Summa Cum Lager.  :beer:

I think mine missed my graduation.  :beer:
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2018, 06:38:01 pm »
   At least now we can say Merry Christmas without getting the $hit kicked out of us, unless your wearing a MAGA hat, of course.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2018, 07:06:34 pm »
Quote from: corbe on December 07, 2018, 06:38:01 pm
   At least now we can say Merry Christmas without getting the $hit kicked out of us, unless your wearing a MAGA hat, of course.

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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2018, 07:13:57 pm »
How have a good time?  Lower your expectations and enjoy what you get?
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« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2018, 07:21:07 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on December 07, 2018, 07:13:57 pm
How have a good time?  Lower your expectations and enjoy what you get?

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You ask a good question, not easily answered.  I'm a bit of a pessimist, and I generally have low expectations anyway.  But, so far, my life seems to be happy.   :shrug:
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« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2018, 07:29:05 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on December 07, 2018, 07:21:07 pm
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You ask a good question, not easily answered.  I'm a bit of a pessimist, and I generally have low expectations anyway.  But, so far, my life seems to be happy.   :shrug:

Well, if you have low expectations, you're not easily disappointed.  That can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on where you place those expectations. 
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« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2018, 07:32:28 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on December 07, 2018, 02:05:12 pm


Christmas time; the only time day drinking is advised.
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« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2018, 07:34:10 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on December 07, 2018, 07:21:07 pm
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You ask a good question, not easily answered.  I'm a bit of a pessimist, and I generally have low expectations anyway.  But, so far, my life seems to be happy.   :shrug:

If I may, I shall go off on a tangent.  I have found that less planning for holiday gatherings and  vacations, trips,  leads to very happy events and memories.  Impromptu  is the way to go.  Less disappointment if it doesn't meet your minds inflated expectations.  Planning every detail, every minute, hour, seating arrangement only brings disappointment.

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« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2018, 07:36:50 pm »
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If I may, I shall go off on a tangent.  I have found that less planning for holiday gatherings and  vacations, trips,  leads to very happy events and memories.  Impromptu  is the way to go.  Less disappointment if it doesn't meet your minds inflated expectations.  Planning every detail, every minute, hour, seating arrangement only brings disappointment.

Yep!  And you won't care if no one notices and appreciates how much effort you (didn't) put into the preparations.
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« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2018, 07:37:37 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on December 07, 2018, 07:34:10 pm
If I may, I shall go off on a tangent.  I have found that less planning for holiday gatherings and  vacations, trips,  leads to very happy events and memories.  Impromptu  is the way to go.  Less disappointment if it doesn't meet your minds inflated expectations.  Planning every detail, every minute, hour, seating arrangement only brings disappointment.

Exactly!  I completely agree.
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Re: How to protect your mental well-being this festive season
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2018, 07:38:28 pm »
I  have the expectation people will be the same. Since I already limit my interactions with people I doubt I will be disappointed any more than the usual.
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« Reply #25 on: December 07, 2018, 08:22:47 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on December 07, 2018, 07:37:37 pm
Exactly!  I completely agree.

One of the most memorable and enjoyable Thanksgivings was such a trip.   Our son still talks about it today.  My Mom was distraught when I told her we were not going to make it for thanksgiving that year.  At the last minute we decided to go Redwing MN to shop for pink depression glass at a huge flee market.
We checked into our hotel on Thanksgiving day only to find out every restaurant in Redwing was closed...except for the local bowling alley.  The Bowl-A-Rama was serving up an all you can eat Thanksgiving buffet.  The place was packed and the meal was fantastic!   

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« Reply #26 on: December 07, 2018, 08:28:06 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on December 07, 2018, 08:22:47 pm
One of the most memorable and enjoyable Thanksgivings was such a trip.   Our son still talks about it today.  My Mom was distraught when I told her we were not going to make it for thanksgiving that year.  At the last minute we decided to go Redwing MN to shop for pink depression glass at a huge flee market.
We checked into our hotel on Thanksgiving day only to find out every restaurant in Redwing was closed...except for the local bowling alley.  The Bowl-A-Rama was serving up an all you can eat Thanksgiving buffet.  The place was packed and the meal was fantastic!   

What a great memory.
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« Reply #27 on: December 07, 2018, 10:12:08 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on December 07, 2018, 07:32:28 pm
Christmas time; the only time day drinking is advised.

I kept a bottle of Baileys under the seat in my truck, and would pour a shot into every cup of crappy hardware store coffee I got as I made my morning rounds... It really helped the taste... Everything was good... It took me a while to figger out I was getting sh*tfaced by 10:30 in the morning, when sadly, my love affair with Baileys came to an end.

But ONE (large) Baileys inffused mocha is a wonderful way to start your day  happy77
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