This article is to educate readers around mental health involving financial stress around the holidays and potential coping mechanisms and/or actions you could take to minimize or lessen the stress.

This is a quick post about anxiety, how it can be recognized, and a few suggested methods on how to cope with it so you're daily life isn't overcome with it. If you feel overwhelmed or that you are a danger to yourself or others, please reach out for help by contacting your local emergency service(s).

Tricks for Dealing With Pathological Demand Avoidance Do you routinely get anxiety about having to do things? Feeling like you have no control in life and missing deadlines due to resistance? Struggle to even do basic tasks you feel need  to get done? You might have Pathological Demand Avoidance, or PDA. People with PDA, or PDAers, can get anger, anxiety, or other resistance to tasks that feel pressured or necessary. Anything from homework to just needing to eat or go to the