This December 6, 2012 article on the Pocono Record website talks about the effect of expectaions during the Holliday season, and ways to maybe decrease some of the stress, anxiety and depression that results in some folks.
Tag / self-care
“Mental Illness: Coping with the Holidays”
The following link will take you to a PDF format Brochure put oiut by Mental Health Ministries. It offers some tips for Mental Health Consumers to help them survive the holiday season.
http://www.mentalhealthministries.net/links_resources/brochures/holidays.pdf
Here’s the link to the site it self, they’ve got some other articles and brochures that could be of interest.
http://www.mentalhealthministries.net
If you don’t have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can click on the following link to download it for free
Pennsylvania Mental Health Issues 