What Are the Effects of Christmas on Health?

Today's office workers finally take a long vacation, they will arrange a lot of activities, and then look forward to the stars and the moon and look forward to the arrival of the holiday, but often disappointed to find that the holiday is always fleeting and not want to play enough, this It is called "Christmas Syndrome" in foreign countries.

Christmas Syndrome

Today's office workers finally take a long vacation, they will arrange a lot of activities, and then look forward to the stars and the moon and look forward to the arrival of the holiday, but often disappointed to find that the holiday is always fleeting and not want to play enough, this It is called "Christmas Syndrome" in foreign countries.

Christmas syndrome is a type of loneliness. The award-winning article of the annual competition held by the British medical journal The Lancet speaks not of autism, but is indeed an emotion that affects many people and does not make doctors feel unfamiliar. The author of the article, Dr. Ishanin Karl-Pulskayaasta, told the sad story she saw at a British hospital during Christmas.

Karl-Pulcayasta mentioned in the article that the 82-year-old woman Doris Lafferty was very healthy but was hospitalized three times before Christmas two weeks. She did not have any specific symptoms. Checked but found no problems. When the doctor told her that she might have to be discharged, Lafferty talked about her life experience. She had been widow for 20 years, and her two sons lived in a strange land thousands of miles away. Lafferty wore two watches on her wrist, one from her own and the other from her husband. She said, "I have too much time, I ca nt count on a single watch." "There are two days left. It's Christmas, I don't want to go home. "After being questioned by the doctor, the old man finally expressed his heart.

Karl-Pulkayasta can appreciate the sorrow that the old man felt during the festival where all external factors strengthened happiness. "Maybe I can prescribe antidepressants for her, but in fact she is not depressed clinically. She just feels abandoned by a world that doesn't have much to do with her, or even to her loved ones."

Karl Purkasta believes that the sadness of Christmas among her patients and thousands of others is actually a reflection of true autism.

The scientific literature on Christmas synthesis is scarce and lacks new information. An article published in the "General Psychiatry Literature" monthly magazine in 1981 investigated the emergency records of a psychiatric hospital over the past 7 years during the Christmas period and found that the number of emergency patients did not increase during the holiday period, but increased sharply after the holiday period. But Doris Lafferty is not an exception. Like her, many people will be admitted to the hospital before Christmas, rather than staying at home alone.

The Spanish are no stranger to this situation. Many people are very sensitive to Christmas lights, shopping mall decorations, and party after party. This sensitivity is actually similar to Christmas sadness.

But many people compare Christmas sadness with depression. Experts think that this is wrong. The former is a mental state of sadness or insomnia related to a specific environment, which is caused by environmental changes, and the latter is a disease. May deepen or worsen, and symptoms last at least two weeks. The doctor therefore denied the existence of the so-called Christmas syndrome.

Fernando, a doctor who works in Madrid, noticed that the number of patients increased during the Christmas period, but he believes that most of the patients are vented at this moment because of previous problems. People who live well will not have this kind of problem, but people who have difficulties or suffer losses may Will react to Christmas.

Fernando believes that Christmas sorrow is similar to a holiday response. When many people are planning vacations with family and friends in a hurry, those who do not have a vacation opportunity and friends will feel sad and lonely.

In any case, Christmas has to be happy and reunion has become a fixed pattern, when a person does not have Christmas family or friends, it will inevitably appear alone and melancholy.

Although there are many suggestions for experts on how to avoid Christmas sorrow, in the final analysis, they can be summarized as follows: take the initiative to control the situation, don't let social customs lead the nose, don't stay at home, don't stray, and avoid living in the past.

Dr. Fernando recommends looking at Christmas in a rational and easy-to-read manner, and now Christmas has become more and more commercialized and has lost its traditional characteristics. "If Christmas is not meaningful to you, why go to a bunch of parties on this day? What if economic conditions permit, it might as well take the opportunity to relax in a different place. " ^[2]