Getting Through the Holidays

Your About.com Health Guides have put together these special reports to help you deal with the many pressures of the season. Whether you are dealing with stress, depression, grief or you are just allergic to your Christmas tree, this information can help you have a happier holiday.

• Avoiding Holiday Allergies
  Allergies Guide Daniel More has tips for keeping yourself and your family safe during the holiday season.

• Bah, Humbug!
  Bipolar Guide Marcia Purse shares her personal experience in dealing with SAD during the holidays.

• Does a White Christmas Make You Blue?
  Too often we spend holidays angry, stressed, and blue. Nancy Schimelpfening asks, why does this happen and how can we avoid it?

• Feeling SAD As the Days Grow Shorter?
  Depression Guide Nancy Schimelpfening says it's not just the holidays that can cause the blues, it can be insufficient exposure to sunlight.

• Hectic Holidays
  Good Christmas advice for people with arthritis from Guide Carol Eustice.

• Holiday Blues and Seniors
  There are special emotional dangers for seniors at this time of year. Guide Marian Eure has excellent advice for coping.

• Holiday Dangers
  Ways to keep the holiday season a lot safer, from Alcoholism Guide BuddyT.

• A Not So Happy Holiday
  Holiday support for those dealing with infertility or the loss of a baby from Robin Weiss, Pregnancy Guide.

• SAD: Real and Treatable
  Seasonal Affective Disorder information from the female perspective by Tracee Cornforth, About.com Guide to Women's Health.

• When Grief Comes Home for the Holidays
  If someone you love is experiencing grief this holiday season, here's what you can do to offer them comfort, from Guide Nancy Schimelpfening.

• Winter Moods
  Bipolar Disorder Guide Kimberly Bailey's look at SAD includes a list of symptoms that might help your sense of humor kick back in.