Financial stress, grief, saying yes to too many events, and sky-high expectations can complicate any time of the year, but especially the pressure-filled holiday season.
When it comes to holiday-related stressors, therapists say certain topics arise routinely at this point on the calendar.
“It’s something that comes up in a lot of my sessions,” said Sadaf Siddiqi, a psychotherapist and mental health consultant in New York City. “It probably started two weeks before Thanksgiving, that the anxiety around the holidays [sets] in.”
There are a number of things that people struggle with during this time of year. (Read: You are not alone if you aren’t holly-jolly right now.) Below, therapists share the biggest issues that come up in therapy during the holiday season:
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