{"id":133505,"date":"2025-11-11T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/133505\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:14:09","slug":"three-easy-ways-to-help-you-beat-the-winter-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/133505\/","title":{"rendered":"Three easy ways to help you beat the winter blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While resting more is natural, it is still important to make time for the things that make us happy and to mix with other people, according to GP Gavin Francis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re very social animals, even the most solitary human being doesn&#8217;t live completely alone. We all depend on others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suggests planning activities in advance, focusing on spending time with those who make you feel good, and activities which can boost your mood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doing this means you&#8217;re committed, and a low mood nearer the time won&#8217;t be able to stop you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can then start planning in your diary to do more things with these people over winter,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simple practical things to improve your mood, such as making sure you get a good night&#8217;s sleep, avoiding too much alcohol or late night parties and maintaining a healthy diet are also important, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These things are not rocket science, but they&#8217;re really fundamental to having a good, healthy circadian rhythm and a good healthy physiology through the winter.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While resting more is natural, it is still important to make time for the things that make us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-133505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}