While some people wait for a day after Thanksgiving Day to put up their holiday embellishments, psychology experts have claimed that putting up Christmas decors earlier can actually make a person happier.
With Thanksgiving Day happening two days from now, many Americans are now looking forward to the day after this week’s celebration not only because of the Black Friday sale but also because, for them, it is the ideal day for the Christmas tree to find its way out of the storage room and get embellished for the holiday season. However, it is also a fact that some people don’t wait for the latter days of November before decorating for Christmas, and psychology experts claim that these people are actually happier.
“Although there could be a number of symptomatic reasons why someone would want to obsessively put up decorations early, most commonly for nostalgic reasons either to relive the magic or to compensate for past neglect. In a world full of stress and anxiety people like to associate with things that make them happy and Christmas decorations evoke those strong feelings of the childhood. Decorations are simply an anchor or pathway to those old childhood magical emotions of excitement. So putting up those Christmas decorations early extends the excitement,” Steve McKeown, a Psychoanalyst, founder of MindFixers and owner of The McKeown Clinic, explained in an interview.
It is said that people during the Roman era had to wait for Christmas Eve before…
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