Holiday stress & finances
Dr. Jen Caudle, Dr. Betsy Chung, and Dr. Bertha Hidalgo explore the correlation between financial stress around the holidays and mental health.
Transcript
Coming into the holidays, this is a time where many of us tend to spend maybe more than we do at any other point of the year. [UPBEAT MUSIC]
Finances can be tough and can be a sort of a touchy subject and a little bit of a sticky issue.
I think it's important to talk about how it relates to our mental health because we're talking about this because it affects our health
and can affect our well-being. So maybe I'll start with you, Dr. Betsy, since, you know, you are a mental health professional.
Any opening thoughts about this? Yeah. I think that the pandemic, again, it's
forced us to be very creative. Unfortunately, a lot of people lost jobs, and finances became a really big stressor.
But what I also saw is people just learning how to make it work. A huge shift that I've seen is that people
were able to see that maybe spending money wasn't really the source of happiness after all. I think just having a different perspective on money,
making sure that we learn how to budget in a healthy way. What are things that we need, being able to let go of things that may-- that we don't necessarily
need? What I've been able to see is that people were able to adjust to these-- these difficult changes.
Betsy, your comment about spending not equating happiness is something that I think became very apparent to me
during the pandemic. You know, I think when you're really busy, it's really easy to just spend and forget
that you have an item already or forget that you have food at home and you don't need to stop and get
fast food or takeout. The pandemic was really a fantastic pause, in some ways,
to take a look at our habits and our patterns of activity. And so I think that it has become
a real place of introspection. [UPBEAT MUSIC]
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