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Christmas Music Can Harm Your Mental Health, Psychologist Says
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Posted on 11/08/2017 1:40:48 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Christmas Music Can Harm Your Mental Health, Psychologist Says

November 8, 2017 2:45 PM

CBS Local — Are you one of those people that can’t stand hearing Christmas songs months before the holiday actually arrives? Does hearing festive carols weeks before Thanksgiving only make you upset that you haven’t eaten your turkey yet? A psychologist in Great Britain says your reactions don’t make you a Grinch because too much Christmas music is actually bad for your mental health.

Clinical psychologist Linda Blair claims the constant barrage of Christmas tunes too early in the season forces people to remember all the things they have to do before the holiday. Blair says the songs are a reminder to buy presents, cater parties, organize travel, and all the more stressful chores during Christmas.

“You’re simply spending all of your energy trying not to hear what you’re hearing,” Blair tells Sky News.

The psychologist added that store workers are most at risk for being worn down by the catchy beats. She states that hearing the same songs over and over each day make workers struggle to “tune it out” and they become “unable to focus on anything else.”

“Christmas music is likely to irritate people if it’s played too loudly and too early,” Blair explained to reporters.

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KEYWORDS: grinchstolechristmas; seebsnews; waronchristmas
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To: Sub-Driver

Another adult taking Christmas away from kids like Halloween.


41 posted on 11/08/2017 2:26:56 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Sub-Driver

Where do they find these nutballs ,Oh wait she has a website ,LOL


42 posted on 11/08/2017 2:29:01 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: wardamneagle

Christmas was just fine before the likes of Bruce Springsteen sang Christmas Carols.


43 posted on 11/08/2017 2:30:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

I agree. It is not 2 1\2 months of Christmas.


44 posted on 11/08/2017 2:33:21 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator

I lose it with Burl Ives: “it’s a holly jolly Christmas”. I was in a work environment that played that song in rotation with others, 8+ hours a day, 6 weeks before Christmas. It’s almost enough to make you go psycho.


45 posted on 11/08/2017 2:33:47 PM PST by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a bunch of Bull_hit. I love to hear Christmas music. Not in October, thou...after Thanksgiving, yes!


46 posted on 11/08/2017 2:34:02 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: dfwgator

In moderation, it can be joyous. If you have to listen to it over and over again, it can be injurious to mental health. I think that they use a similar technique to convince prisoners at Gitmo to be more compliant.


47 posted on 11/08/2017 2:35:56 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: dfwgator

“Christmas was just fine before the likes of Bruce Springsteen sang Christmas Carols”.

Oh God....my side is hurtin from laughin.


48 posted on 11/08/2017 2:38:23 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Sub-Driver

Nothing is worse than the Christmas Shoes for Mama dirge - although the rum pum pum pum is a close runner up.


49 posted on 11/08/2017 2:39:11 PM PST by stonehouse01
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, listening to Christmas music at any time of year is bad for my sanity, but then I don’t spend too much time doing it.


50 posted on 11/08/2017 2:42:12 PM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: jiggyboy
No mention of “Dominick, the Italian Christmas Donkey”. I heard that once a few years ago and still convulse at the memory.

This post of yours made me go on YouTube and listen to it. I think my brain melted. I hate you! :-)

51 posted on 11/08/2017 2:42:58 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Sub-Driver

“You’re simply spending all of your energy trying not to hear what you’re hearing,”

This is why, if you look inside a shopping mall, you’ll see most people passed out on the floor and a few deaf people walking around.


52 posted on 11/08/2017 2:43:00 PM PST by fruser1
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To: dfwgator

Me too.

One local radio station starts 24/7 on Christmas music right before Thanksgiving.

And it’s the same dang 50 songs played over and over and over.

And if I hear Mariah or Whitney screech out one more Christmas Song - I will go ballistic.

Not to mention a Chipmunks song.


53 posted on 11/08/2017 2:53:48 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: MrsEmmaPeel

‘I lose it with Burl Ives: “it’s a holly jolly Christmas”.’

bad, yeah, but not as nauseating as ‘Sleigh Ride’, with the phony horse neighing at the end...


54 posted on 11/08/2017 2:54:08 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Sub-Driver
Place your bets. This psychologist is:

A. Not Christian.

B. A big liberal.

C. Pissed off at the world because she has her own unresolved issues she's still dealing with from her childhood.

D. All of the above.

55 posted on 11/08/2017 2:56:26 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Sub-Driver

huh. I’m a procrastinating Christmas eve shopper who knows that Christmas is not about stinking santa. I was playing some Christmas tunes today and my most recent favorite???

JOY TO THE WORLD

Joy to the world! The Lord is come:
let earth receive her King!

LOL they are going to be surprised when He comes as warrior king and His enemies are wiped out, eh?

Anyway, shopping music is mixed as power music to get you to buy more and it is played over and over and over in every store every stinking normal day. Ross used to play one song that drove me nuts. I have very sensitive hearing and this one pitch (like the boom bass in some idiots car) made me want to break the system. Otherwise, I didn’t even hear it. Just that one song. (I worked there)

Now that being said. I bet the hymns drive Satan’s children mad since they can’t leave the way the demons can when they hear His praises. LOL or should I say...bbbbwwwahahahahaha!


56 posted on 11/08/2017 2:59:06 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

You need to hear Momma’s New Shoes.

The shmaltz us thick with that one.


57 posted on 11/08/2017 3:00:23 PM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: MrsEmmaPeel

#45 Your choice to replace is:

Barking Dogs - Jingle Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg
or
Cats sing Jingle Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMFd__hUac


58 posted on 11/08/2017 3:01:33 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Sub-Driver

Blair is full of shit.


59 posted on 11/08/2017 3:01:55 PM PST by TheGunny
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To: stonehouse01

Dang. you beat me by 20 minutes.

I always tell people that Jesus is the name of her gardener who Mama is dating.


60 posted on 11/08/2017 3:07:01 PM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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