Everyone has their ups and downs. Mood depends on many things including the weather diet recent events quality and quantity of sleep food and exercise internal physical factors stress reduction practices and other things. Like Pesach.
Pesach affects mood by increasing feelings of pressure responsibility and in some cases panic. For some people this combination of Pesach-related emotions leads to a rather bad mood — one that can last for about four to six weeks (the days before during and immediately following Pesach).
Moody People
Although homemakers may be particularly hard-hit by the Pesach Mood spouses also feel the extra tension. There are financial pressures time pressures extra household responsibilities extended-family issues extra time at home with the children and all sorts of other holiday-related stresses to contend with. Everyone can feel out of sorts and somewhat irritable at this time of year.
Of course stress and pressure affects mood throughout the year — not just on Pesach. A person can have work-related stress each and every day of the year. Child-rearing stress is an everyday all day affair. Shortage of sleep and other basic requirements of well-being is a constant plague in modern day living. In short pretty much everyone is a victim of chronic as well as episodic (i.e. holiday) stress and therefore pretty well everyone has a “right” to fall into virtually daily bad moods. But not everyone takes advantage of this right especially those who care about having good family relationships.
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