How to deal with post-holiday depression?

After the end of year holidays it is not uncommon for some human beings to experience a certain temporary depression in their teeth. I see three reasons for this:

• The holiday season is over, we realize that we will eat 31 days of the month of January which in my opinion forms the painful duo with that of November,
• Some people, considering the Christmas and New Year holidays as the most wonderful time of the year, sometimes indulge in a big bust of panties, more commonly known as “Christmas frenzy”. The negative reaction to so much expended energy and enthusiasm is not always avoidable and leads the party-loving individual to experience some depression.. If I were to launch into a scientific explanation, I would say that all of this is due to a dramatic hormonal drop, like Baby Blues. But I actually don’t know.
• Between Christmas and New Year, the luckiest among us are filled with family visits and friendly reunions. Seeing the holidays end means perhaps finding yourself overwhelmed by work again, and probably spending much of your free time alone. And it definitely broke.

If, like me, you feel a little depressed when you wake up on January 2, I have a small list of more or less sensible tips to help you get through this period that smells like moldy Roquefort – if I may express myself pleonastically.

Manage liver crisis

We won’t lie to each other: Christmas and New Year, these magical holidays, undermine our intestinal well-being. At least if you’re like me and you’re the type to finish your 74 dishes so as not to be rude and taste the different wines that are served to you at the table 12 times to make sure you savor all the aromas. Result: I – and maybe you too – end the month of December and start January with a constant stomach ache. What can we do to counteract this bloating that fills us up?

It seems that the best solution remains vegetable broth, but it’s not crazy. If you don’t like this option any more than I do, there’s also the possibility of an overdose of steamed vegetables, but that’s not a dream either.

Since we are on Madmoizelle and talking about a draconian diet is out of the question (which many of us would not be able to respect anyway), we’ll do as usual by replacing half of our 24 hour coffees with green tea to clear our consciences. It’s already that.

Managing culinary decadence

When we have the opportunity to spend holidays with family and/or friends with hosts who know how to conquer the hearts of our stomachs, having to eat again at meal times is a nightmare. The drop in your emotions will be long when you pass by a typical menu carpaccio of scallops with two citrus fruits, white pudding and its mixture of apples, capon stuffed with truffles, cheese, trou normand and frozen log to a menu vermicelli soup and vanilla yogurt.

What would I advise you, you who cry every night looking at your meal devoid of goodness?

• Or you dig a little deeper into your overdraft to buy something with which to prepare refined and exotic dishes,
• Or let your imagination run wild and try to imagine, while chewing a piece of ham, that it is a scallop.
• Or you prepare pasta for holiday meals while others enjoy delicate dishes so as not to lose the habit.

Managing the return to reality

The hardest part of the post-party is probably the return to reality it entails. Of course, at Christmas and New Year it’s cold, but the garlands and bulbs of a thousand colors in the streets warm the heart a little. Gone are the walks around the city with your nose buried in scarves and your eyes amazed by so much light; in January we pack our bags. No matter how much you cling to the legs of city workers begging them to leave the decorations up for a few more days, they won’t listen.

As if having to hold your childish soul under a dozen coats wasn’t enough, some universities have even had the sadistic idea of ​​choosing this period of seasonal depression for the first semester exams.

To cure your little depression, nothing better than rewatching the entire Disney series while drinking a cinnamon hot chocolate.

Manage the wait for the next holidays

According to scientific calculations approved by Maxisciences.com, the period between New Year’s Eve and the following Christmas Eve is only 357 days ; It’s okay, there’s not much to drink. Not even Lake Titikaka. We will say that it is nothing other than the Garonne to sip. You can manage this cursed period in different ways :

• Rejection : all year round you will wear Santa’s hat and gorge yourself on chocolates, chestnuts and other sweets. Your tree will continue to be the center of your living room and it won’t be a question of laziness. Accordingly, I advise you to buy a plastic tree, otherwise you will end up with a skeleton Christmas tree and thorns in your reindeer slippers.
• Foresight : what will you do during these 357 days that will separate you from Christmas? Prepare the next one, of course! At the risk of annoying those around you who are so organized by asking them hysterically in early May: “Hey, tell me, have you finished your Christmas presents too? »
• Cynicism : your favorite phrase “Oh hey, it’s fine for five minutes eh, Christmas all this, we don’t care. It’s just a commercial party to spoil spoiled children without even telling them that we went out of our way to give them their gifts in the name of magic. » Christmas, for those who choose this solution, will be like the person to whom we told that we loved him and who rejected us: he becomes an idiot.

So is it (a little) better?

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