Before we look at the causes of Depression that the research showed, let me say something. A major cause of Depression at this time of the year is Alcohol. Alcohol is a poison AND a depressant. This holiday has lasted for a week. Some people have taken three or four times more alcohol than they do in any other week in the year!
This is why children (who don't drink booze) are are so happy and have lots of fun at Christmas. Older people, who do drink, complain about having hangovers, bad heads and feeling awful. They often make matters worse by having some more alcohol. They say that it will 'cure' their hangover. They say that they will be glad when it is all over. Even when they go back to work they still feel depressed and unhappy.
If you are feeling down, ask yourself if you had more booze than you usually have.
Do not kid yourself. You have to compare how much you had to drink in the full holiday period. Some modest drinkers, let's say who
have 3 drinks twice a week, have had 5 drinks on 4 occasions. That's 3 1/2 times more alcohol than they are used to!
Remember what I said above, alcohol is a poison and a DEPRESSANT. That means that it poisons you and makes you feel depressed!
Those figures are only an example and your actual drinks figures may be different. It doesn't matter. If you have drunk more alcohol or more often than usual, that could be why you are feeling down.
Don't worry about it. You will be getting back to a more normal outlook as the alcohol works it's way out of your body.
Do NOT use the drinkers' logic and have a drink to buck you up or to make you feel better or because you usually have one.
To beat drinkers' depression keep off the booze until you feel better.
Now we have looked at that seasonal problem,
we'll have look at the other causes of feeling down, sad or depressed in the next post.
Love, Peace and Happiness.
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