Overcomes post-holiday syndrome
The holidays are over, and every year there is a increase in cases of post-holiday syndrome. The intensity and durability of this discomfort reveals, according to experts, that beyond the depression that can mean the end of the holidays, the syndrome hides that something that does not go well in the life of the individual.
This is stated by the vice president of the Spanish Association of Private Psychiatry (ASEPP), José Antonio López, who believes that more and more Spaniards are the ones who "They pay at the return of the holidays the price of the increasingly aggressive civilization that we are building".
The personality and adaptability of each individual is the main factor, since not everyone has the same psychological strength to fight the return to routine another year after the holidays.
Symptoms of post-holiday depression
- Irritability.
- Difficulty when trying to get to sleep.
- Tiredness.
- Sensation of deep apathy.
- Sadness
As a general rule, this syndrome does not usually last longer than seven or ten days, but in the opposite case, the more intense these symptoms are, the more disagreement the person will have with their daily life and the greater the need for professional help to intervene.
Children and post-holiday syndrome
The youngest of the house do not get rid of these symptoms after the holidays, since they usually have similar effects during the first days of school, and they manifest themselves through restless sleep or lack of appetite.
Children, like the elderly, after the holiday period without schedules, full freedom and without obligations, present anguish facing the fact of returning to school and separating again from their parents for longer periods.
In these cases, there are also differences depending on the personality of the child, in such a way that the more anxious children will notice these symptoms more intensely than those who have a more independent character from their parents.
How to combat post-holiday depression
The key to dealing with this type of depression is that, in most cases, it is an adaptive syndrome, that is, it is like when the time or season changed: "we will feel strange with the environment and even with ourselves a few days and then it will pass us, "says the expert.
He advises to continue enjoying the hours of light, the temperature that still allows us to walk, take an ice cream and look for stimuli that make us feel more alive.
Noelia de Santiago Monteserín
