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Old Nov 06, 2019, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Skeezyks View Post
The holidays are just days for me... nothing special. So that definitely helps to keep the stress level down.

Here are links to 6 articles, from PC's archives, on coping with holiday stress (just in case you haven't already read them):

Coping with the Holidays Survival Guide | Psych Central

More Coping with Holiday Stress Tips

10 Tips to Manage Holiday Stress

6 Tips for Approaching the Holiday Season

Simplifying the Holidays

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/imper...oliday-stress/


@Skeezyks

Thank you so much for the links. I read most of them, and under the one that lists even more links, I found the boundaries one especially helpful for me: https://blogs.psychcentral.com/imper...-the-holidays/

I like your (and others') idea of seeing the holidays as another day. That helps with relieving the pressure of joining in or not joining in.

I'll most likely be online here for the holidays. I'm new to my area, so volunteering isn't in the cards just yet. My neighbor invited me over her place, so I might check that out for an hour or two - tops. I tend to watch holiday movies by myself though, so I find ways to enjoy celebrating it on my own.

I'm not a true introvert; I typically test with both introversion and extroversion, so I'm somewhere in the middle. I think my disabilities turned me into an introvert, but at heart, I'm more of an extrovert.

Oh, and you mentioned in another post about liking mysteries. I used to watch Murder, She Wrote growing up, and occassionally Alfred Hitchcock. Years later, and I now enjoy watching different movie/tv genres, including fantasy, psychological thrillers, mystery movies/shows, crime-based shows, romantic comedies, some holiday flicks, some animated shows, some documentaries, etc. Rarely, I'll see a horror flick, though I used to be into Nightmare on Elm Street growing up.

Oh, and I love those movies that include teachers, such as Stand and Deliver, Dead Poets Society, Dangerous minds, Akeelah and the Bee, and Larry Crowne, just to name a few.
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