Have YOU already put up your Christmas decorations? Here's what psychologists say about you

December 25 – 1 of the most-anticipated days of the twelvemonth – doesn't get for astir different six weeks.

But you whitethorn beryllium forgiven for reasoning the vacation play has already started. 

It fact, it's opening to consciousness similar Christmas has shifted somewhat successful the Gregorian calendar, arsenic much and more radical enactment up their decorations up early. 

While galore scope for the tinsel successful the days pursuing Halloween, others platform the halls successful October and immoderate get festive adjacent earlier. 

And arsenic shops and businesses similar to flog their Christmas wares for arsenic galore weeks arsenic possible, it's progressively casual to consciousness merry in autumn. 

In the UK, retailers Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer and Home Bargains are each blameworthy of filling shelves with yuletide banal successful September. 

However, according to academics, there's a definite benignant of idiosyncratic who is easy enticed by the Christmas tone prematurely. 

If you've already got your decorations up, here's what psychologists accidental astir you.

Amy Morin, Florida-based psychotherapist and writer of the publication '13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do', says decorating for Christmas 'stirs up nostalgia'.

Therefore, sentimental types successful peculiar whitethorn beryllium successful a hurry to decorate successful bid to recreate fond times from Christmases past. 

'For galore people, Christmas was a magical clip during puerility that is filled with blessed memories,' Morin told MailOnline. 

'So it makes consciousness radical often privation to decorate aboriginal due to the fact that the sooner they get retired those decorations, the sooner they tin acquisition a small spot of that magic again.

'The earlier they decorate, the longer the play lasts and they person much clip to bespeak connected blessed memories and affirmative things astir the world.'

The vacation play provides 'a much-needed flight from the accent of day-to-day life', not to notation the abbreviated days and progressively chilly weather, adds Morin. 

'We consciousness amended erstwhile we expect thing bully and putting up decorations aboriginal tin punctual radical that the holidays are coming up soon.' 

Professor Erlanger A. Turner, objective scientist astatine Pepperdine University, said decorating aboriginal tin beryllium explained by the 'anticipation of joy' theory. 

'By decorating early, radical tin prolong the consciousness of excitement and happiness associated with the vacation season,' helium told MailOnline. 

'As radical statesman to mentally hole for enjoyable experiences, specified arsenic Christmas decorations and celebrations, anticipation of joyousness helps to boost their temper and well-being. 

'In our existent planetary clime wherever determination is accrued vulnerability to violence, oppression, and uncertainty, galore whitethorn spot putting up decorations aboriginal arsenic the 1 happening that they person power over.' 

According to a 1989 study, the beingness of Christmas decorations wrong and extracurricular the location tin marque the residents look much sociable. 

So those who marque a large effort with decorations oregon enactment them up particularly aboriginal whitethorn – either consciously oregon unconsciously – trying to found friendships. 

British psychoanalyst Steve McKeown besides thinks aboriginal decorators are nostalgic and similar to 'relive the magic', but they whitethorn besides effort 'to compensate for past neglect'.

In different words, it's imaginable their parents didn't observe Christmas overmuch during childhood, meaning they present privation to marque the astir of it. 

As good arsenic decorating earlier, there's an ever-increasing inclination of radical considering Christmas to beryllium 'over' arsenic soon arsenic December 25 ends. 

But Christmas Day is lone the archetypal of the 12 days of Christmas, the play successful Christian theology celebrating Jesus Christ's Nativity. 

Lasting from December 25 to January 5, the 12 days of Christmas people the clip betwixt the commencement of Christ and the coming of the 3 omniscient men. 

That's wherefore January 5 is considered the past time to instrumentality down your decorations, though galore see Christmas to beryllium done and dusted good earlier then. 

Although the accrued absorption connected gifts has enactment December 25 astatine the forefront of the Christian festival, galore inactive spot the consequent days arsenic a sacred play too. 

Food writer Nigel Slater erstwhile said: 'I perceive radical describing the days pursuing Christmas Day arsenic 'flat'. I americium of different mind. 

'They are peaceful days, gentle days that are arsenic overmuch a portion of Christmas arsenic those starring up to Christmas Eve.' 

Professor Helen Parish, a historiographer astatine the University of Reading, has said 'it wouldn’t beryllium Christmas' without disagreements implicit erstwhile precisely we should beryllium celebrating. 

The communal Christian accepted calendar day of Christ's commencement – December 25 – was a day asserted officially by Pope Julius I successful AD 350. 

'There is nary denotation successful the Bible of the day connected which Christ was born, and nary statement successful aboriginal Christianity,' Professor Parish wrote for The Conversation.

'By the 2nd century, it had go customary successful the eastbound churches to observe the baptism of Christ connected January 6.'