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.

• Allergic to the Season?
  Allergies Guide Judy Tidwell has tips for avoiding seasonal sneezes.

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

• Cabin Fever Ramblings
  Are you suffering from a touch of Cabin Fever? Healing Guide Phylameana lila Desy sympathizes with feelings of confinement and feverish depression.

• Deck the Halls - Seasonal Special
  The holiday season can be especially stressful to those who suffer from a sleep disorder. Here are a few tips to help you cope, from Guide Florence Cardinal.

• 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.

• Holiday Mental Health
  Holidays can bring on a confusing array of emotions for anyone. Guide Cathleen Henning helps you prepare.

• 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.