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\"holiday-therese\"<\/a>For people prone to depression and anxiety \u2013 i.e. human beings \u2013 the holidays invite countless possibility to get sucked into negative and catastrophic thinking. You take the basic stressed-out individual and you increase her to-do list by a third, stuff her full of refined sugar and processed foods, force her into social gatherings at which she\u2019s not feeling the love, and you have what we call \u201choliday blues.\u201d Some depression during the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years is inevitable. We just have to suck it up. But there are strategies to prevent you from a full-blown breakdown.<\/p>\n

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For people prone to depression and anxiety \u2013 i.e. human beings \u2013 the holidays invite countless possibility to get sucked into negative and catastrophic thinking. 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