MONEY, HOLIDAY STYLE: DEPRESSION/ANXIETY

The December Holidays is the perfect excuse to spend money you can not afford to spend to lift your spirits and ignite your anxiety/depression.  It is hard to deal with everyone’s holiday cheer without doing something to make yourself feel better.  The most dangerous part of this for a depressive/anxious person like myself is that at some point things become vague and I hardly know what I am doing other than trying to make myself feel better.  Credit cards are particularly dangerous for me because they make spending so easy and painless.  I have told myself again and again I can pay for this or that item next month.  Of course, the debt is around for a lot longer than a month, more like a year or more.

We all have to do what we have to do to get through the holidays.  I am not criticizing how I have dealt with holiday spending in the past.  I did the best I could at that moment in time.  However, this year for the first time I am not going to use a credit card.  I have gotten rid of my credit cards because I just could not control or trust myself if they were in my wallet.   I am going to have to look for inexpensive or free things to do to cheer myself up.  Good Luck??!!