Experts Weigh In On How To Handle Holiday Stress

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Thanksgiving tin beryllium stressful nether mean circumstances, but it whitethorn beryllium much truthful this year.

After months of societal distancing, bigger in-person gatherings are backmost this year!

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“Going to devour a batch of turkey, cranberry sauce, and walk a batch of bully clip with family,” said Andrew Crowley. Hoping for the best. We missed Thanksgiving past twelvemonth truthful going for it this year.”

But with the holiday, comes a bully magnitude of stress.

“The pandemic and the family, a operation of both,” said Pat Gregory.

Like spending clip with hard household members oregon serving up the close food.

“Getting it done connected clip due to the fact that I’m the cook,”  Gregory added.

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A caller canvass shows astir two-thirds of radical are readying to get unneurotic with friends oregon household extracurricular their households this Thanksgiving.

Psychologist Lisa Damour says if you’re feeling anxious astir it, commencement by lowering your expectations.

“I deliberation radical sometimes deliberation it’s the holidays. It should beryllium fun, it should beryllium wonderful. But if the radical who are with you are not your archetypal choice, it’s astir apt amended to abstracted the thought of the holidays from the thought of having a bully time, said Damour.

She says if idiosyncratic brings up a arguable topic, marque a program to excuse yourself oregon alteration the subject.

“If you are disquieted astir hostility implicit the holidays, you person a location you person nutrient you person company, tune into that if we absorption connected that we get our position backmost and it makes it easier to carnivore the hard parts,” Damour added.

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Damour says if you’re disquieted astir spreading COVID, you tin ever person appetizers outside. Also, skip the buffets and family-style dinner. Instead, person 1 idiosyncratic hole everyone’s plate.

Kelsey Kushner