Anxiety and depression are often included in the same sentence, but the effects of these two conditions on your mental and physical health are quite different.
Holiday blues are real, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, with 64 percent of surveyed Americans saying that they experience holiday blues and 24 percent reporting negative effects related to the holidays.
A major public health concern, suicide is the twelfth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 10-14 and 25-34.
