{"id":459,"date":"2023-05-15T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2023-09-26T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:58:13","slug":"mental-health-and-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/mental-health-and-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health and the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The holidays can be a time of gathering, joy, and family. However, for those struggling with depression or loss the season signifies a time of stress, anxiety, and worsened symptoms. In fact, 64% of those with mental illness reported that the holidays do make their symptoms worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The demands of preparing and entertaining family, travel, buying gifts, managing the flu and covid\u2026 the list as long as the line at the desk at Target and Starbucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, mental health is now a part of our community lexicon. We are all observing, recognizing\u2013and sharing\u2013our emotional temperature. And doing something to protect and elevate or soothe the way we feel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Just remember that you are not alone. Those beautiful commercials do not tell the whole story. None of us gets out of this season without heartache. It is part of the human condition. We see you and we are with you. We are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The holidays can be a time of gathering, joy, and family. However, for those struggling with depression or loss the season signifies a time of stress, anxiety, and worsened symptoms. In fact, 64% of those with mental illness reported that the holidays do make their symptoms worse. The demands of preparing and entertaining family, travel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsacounseling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n