Holidays & Anxiety: Stress the Halls
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
There's a reason polls have shown that a whopping 45% of Americans would rather chose to skip Christmas altogether. All of the stress of planning vacations, buying gifts, and spending time in potentially volatile conversations with estranged family members doesn't exactly scream Christmas spirit. However, as Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen relay in this episode, you can choose not to fall into those stressful holiday habits.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Tanna Aeman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions. |
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, hey everybody, happy holidays, but apparently not everybody thinks they're happy. |
| 1:01.0 | 45% of Americans would prefer to skip Christmas according to a |
| 1:06.7 | survey from Think Finance and reported on NBC News. It's a widespread |
| 1:12.4 | spread problem Nearly a quarter of Americans reported feeling extreme |
| 1:18.8 | stress come holiday time. Holiday stress statistics show up that 69% of people are stressed by the feeling |
| 1:27.1 | of having a lack of time, 69% are stressed by perceived a lack of money, 51% are stressed out about |
| 1:35.0 | about pressure to give or get gifts. |
| 1:39.4 | So, I have a lot to say about this. Seriously? |
| 1:44.0 | Yes, because I have always felt like, well, I mean, maybe not when I was a little kid and I would run out in open gifts and I didn't have to be the one worrying and stressing about |
| 1:53.9 | buying all the gifts. But from the time I was a young adult, I mean like in my 20s, I |
| 1:59.8 | did not like the idea of the commercial part of Christmas. |
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