{"id":3522,"date":"2011-10-06T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:06:11","slug":"beating-the-recession-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/beating-the-recession-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating The Recession Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t know about you but all the endless headlines about a euro crisis, rising unemployment and recession have been making me feel blue and I\u2019m even not someone who likes to put my head in the sand.\n\nAside from the doom and gloom aspect of it all which tends to bookend my day (as that\u2019s when I tend to watch the news), there never seems to be any talk of how families can cope, or survive or even dare I say it, hope for an improvement.\n\nSo it\u2019s no wonder that new figures show that debt-triggered depression is on the rise amongst women. Experts say living with chronic anxiety about rising food and energy prices, and finances – destroys a person\u2019s sense of well-being and sense of stability leaving the door open for depression.\n\n \n\n
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http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rustyboxcars\/<\/p><\/div>\n\n \n\nIf you\u2019re feeling down and the above sounds all too familiar, aside from getting help, my advice on getting happy would be to refuse to be sucked into the daily well of despair politicians and some newspapers like to peddle.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n<\/em>\n\nFor instance, do I really need to hear David Cameron tell us we\u2019re economically in a \u201cmoment of danger\u201d or a newspaper tell me that \u2018Stress is the Black Death of the 21st<\/sup> Century? 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