Does anybody else get "depressed" this time of year?

[NYGACU]

There is also the element of the "winter blues" or more clinically known as seasonal affective disorder which of course is worsened by the limited light at this time of year.

 

[Croynan]

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eM.

i have never been impressed with the holiday season. i just think my personalities and or mine set does not take to it. but then again, being the local village idiot may have something to do with it.

 

[jamie_01930]

Lots of people find things depressing this time of year. me included

Very common but not to say just sweep it under the carpet and it will go away . That's not the way to win the war with depression

good luck

 

[me12121]

Not usually around Christmas...but New Year's Eve usually puts me in a bad mood.

Yeah, I can't stand New Year's Eve. I'm 99.9% sure I'm going to be alone again like every year. I hate it. I wish I could just skip the night.

At least I get to go back to school 2 days after new year's eve. Living at home is depressing. It's way too quiet here, and probably will be the whole time since we don't celebrate Christmas or anything. I miss my floormates blasting their music, having the guy across from me knock on my door all the time, going out for campus pizza at 2am, and sharing the latest tv shows with everyone on the school's network. I can't wait to get back. 18 days to go!

 

[FirePhoenix]

I always seem to get really depressed around the holidays for the past few years. I decorated this year and though I would try to get into the christmas spirit but as the days have gone by I just feel more and more in a sad mood.

This holiday stuff has lost all meaning for my parents, instead of my mom decorating and making little homemade stuff she just doesn't care anymore and my dad just thinks of christmas as a day to eat a huge meal and buy things. It has gotten to me a bit that my parents have lost that love for christmas and the holidays that I guess is now just a memory in my mind. I guess if they pass on before me I probably won't care anymore.

 

[otto1958]

A couple of months ago, I think someone else started a thread like this and a very wise JUBBER wrote then: "I like what Christmas represents, but I hate what it has become" (or something like that). I couldn't put it better myself. I think it's all about over-expectancy. I also hate it in Sainsbury's at this time of the year- I find it so obscene that people are buying up as if for a siege, but the shop will only be closed for two days at the most!!!

 

[hubbellgardner]

I used to, without fail, for all of the above-noted reasons and more. Yet I've come to a new resolve about the crass commercialism of it all and started to look for the genuine warmth and kindness that can reveal itself at this time of year, starting with the fellowship and sociability. Hadn't put up a tree in some years, but opted to give it a whack, and by involving a handful of friends and sharing memories of each ornament ( many were my Mams, who LOVED the whole shebang ) and trying to stay open to the possibilities, I've been enjoying it so much more than the customary snarling Fuck Christmas and `enduring ' it all.... I dunno, by working at leaving myself open to the true Christmas spirit, I'm not mired in misery and madness. ......Merry Christmas to you all.

 

[frankfrank]

I think I've got a bit of S.A.D., but only a little.

My schedule tends to get the flakiest at this time of year.

 

[BrandonSBCA]

It's almost over then I can forget this dreadful season.