Does Physical Depression Start with A Thought?

What is it that makes so many of us physically depressed over any large holiday season? Certainly it can't be the happiness we once knew. But maybe the lack of it and the fact that the changes we see aren't really that great. Remember your first Christmas as a kid?

The excitement leading up to the event was almost to much to bear. In the end however, at least for me, the holiday DID live up to the expectation and anticipation. Today however, no holiday is what it should be. The hyper consumerism of our society has bastardized the holidays to the point that they've been reduced to buying events for yet more stuff we don't need to impress people we don't like.

The stuff is then relegated to the back of the closet of thrown out or even more crazy, stored away. So we end up buying housing several sizes to big to store the boxes we had to buy to hold the stuff we own. And we end up physically depressed over the whole situation.

Everyone knows that the major holidays, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are especially trying times for many. Is it the loss of innocence or recognition that things have changed for the worse and we have no way to return to those special days? Do we as participants in our hyperactive consumer society mindlessly go from one holiday to the next? Never taking the time to enjoy or reflect on the intent of the holiday. Back in our minds we must hold onto some part of what we understood a holiday to be. This is especially true of the major holidays like New Year's, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Physical depression must take an up tick during the month of January. Maybe it's the hope that things will be better the next year or that it's a time of "new beginnings"... at least we think so for a week or two. The fact that very few of us actually follow through on all those New Years Resolutions is an indicator of another problem but even that may be cause for some to become depressed. Nothing changes, even when a year changes.

The fact is that we also have a serious increase in the number of divorce filings in the month of January. Is this a symptom of depression caused by unfulfilled expectations or the hope for something, anything better? If left to it's own, often depression can develop into having full scale panic attack symptoms.

If this is possible, the disappointment and recognition of what the holidays have become may contribute to an almost melancholy if not depression like mental state. If this is at least partially true, it would hold then that many people who divorces long term mates are actually despondent and recognize that being single isn't the promised land they hoped.

Could the depression caused by physically enduring the holidays cause the sadness and decision to end a marriage? If you suspect that depression or a feeling for the need to change may be driving a desire to divorce your mate, you owe it to explore the reasons why you want to make this change. A depression support group may be a very effective way to at least explore the possibility that an underlying emotional state may be the driving force of the increase in January divorce filings.

Although many of us suffer the effects of depression, there can be no doubt that January brings a feeling of hopefullness along with needing to do something, almost anything to make things better. One idea instead of divorce of destruction of relationships could be a 12 step program for depression. You should consider working on your mental state prior to taking a serious action such as a divorce. You can file at any time but you cannot go back once it's been done.

You owe it to yourself to explore the possibility that the physical depression symptoms evident during the holidays and end of the year festivities may be the causing your desire to make major changes in your life. If this is happening, the one thing you don't want to do in a depressive mental condition is to make major changes in your life.

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