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Flexibility keeps holiday blues away
By Peggy Polacek
To avoid becoming depressed during the holiday,
a person should think of Christmas as a season of joy
and sharing, instead of a one-day event, said a social
worker for the Lincoln Family Service Commission.,
Kate Enersen said that it may help to consider the
holiday season as beginning at Thanksgiving and
extending until the new year, She said this may make
arrangements easier for families who cannot be
together for Christmas because of death, divorce or
distance.
The entire family should share in the season, she
said, and show more flexibility in celebrations the holi
days. She said it should not matter whether Christmas
is celebrated on Dec. 21 or Dec. 28.
People expect a season of joyousness, she said, but
are disillusioned when their Christmas does not look
like something from television.
Tom Martin, administrative assistant at the UNL
1 Psychological Consultation Center, said people have an
image of the holidays being filled with love for every
body; but they may realize that their lives are not that
way.
Holidays are a time when people cover up their
Eroblems, Martin said. Many hold together during the
olidays because they won't admit they have a
problem-.
Martin gave the example that a student's relation
ship may be having difficulties. The couple tend to
stay together until Christmas because of plans made for
the holidays. After Christmas no plans are holding the
two together, he said, and they must face up to thei
situation.
"People often ignore interpersonal problems a?
Christmas approaches," Martin said, "and are left to
face their problems afterwards."
The holiday season doesn't depress or disappoint
everyone, Martin said, but anyone could be affected
in that way. Each person's reasons for being depressed
are different, he said, ft is best to deal with the indivi
dual and find a solution that will work for him or her.
Enersen suggested that newly divorced people or
those who are alone Huring the holiday season should
establish new Christmas rituals and traditions to make
the season special to them. ;
"Society is becoming .more responsive to single
people who don't always have their family around,"
she said. "There are a lot of lonely people out there,
and I urge them to be with friends and to get out to
attend things like Christmas plays and concerts to
make their own holiday season." ' ' v
Making the holiday good for yourself, and having
realistic expectations for it should help avert -depression,
Enersen said.
Martin said' the most important way to prevent
depression is to talk to someone if a problem becomes
too large. He said not to keep a problem inside, but to
express it.
The death of a family-member at Christmas time
can' be very difficult, Enersen said. Death cannot be
denied, she said, and it is often good to remember
what "Dad or Grandma" liked to do for Christmas.
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Fewer jobs . . .
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UNL Assistant Dean of Engineering Ed Anderson said
the average number , of jobs offered to engineering
students are usually three or four, but this year there may
be only one or two that the student can choose from.
According to the Michigan survey, there will be 17.7
fewer visits to campus by recruiters.
Don Glover, chairman of the advertising department
in the UNL School of Journalism, said fewer recruiters
are coming to UNL.
However, the demand for teachers in mathematics,
science, industrial education and special education has
increased, Ron Joekel, associate dean of UNL Teachers
College, said.
"They (school districts) are hiring anyone who can
teach these subjects," he said.
"People here have a higher percentage of placement
than other schools. In fact, we .don't have enough
graduates to fill all of the positions available."
Joekel said the Teachers College has received a large
number of requests to fill jobs.
"A lot more (students) are applying for key jobs be
cause they want the best ones," he said.
Hazel Anthony, dean of the UNL College of Home
Economics, said things also are looking up for their
graduates.
"There are always jobs for students in food service
and dietetic jobs," she said.
"They are looking harder (for a job), but they are able
to get one," Anthony said.
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