I mean when it appraoches I can always hear that same song playing in my head "So this is Christmas, what have you done" and the nswer is usally the same - nothing!
2006-11-29 03:38:44 · 23 answers · asked by nachomanhulk 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
A lot of people get depressed around the holidays, the weather and the temperature put a damper on people's spirits. There is a theory that there are winter-people and summer-people and winter people are okay in the fall and winter because they like the climate and they have things to do. Summer-people are warm weather people who dislike the cold temperatures. The season have nothing to do with their dispositions, it's just a general statement.
If you feel like you haven't done anything, then go do something. If you're feeling like you haven't helped the community, go out and volunteer, serve at a soup kitchen, organize clothes at the Salvation Army, anything helps. If you feel like you haven't done enough with your family, take each person out and spend time alone with just them. Show them that you truly care. If you don't live around or with some of them, send them e-mails to check on them and to assure them that you love them. If you haven't done enough at work set a goal for yourself to accomplish something by a certain time and then you'll have something to work for.
The best way to not be depressed around the holidays is to keep your mind of how you're feeling. Go out with friends, do fun things, help people, and keep yourself busy and you will feel a lot better.
2006-11-29 03:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by snowbaby 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know its hard for me to get motivated if I am down/depressed but we are fortunate in this country. All our needs are taken care of-heat,light warmth,food,housing etc. I am part of a 12 step programme so I can go out and meet people and talk about my problems. Why don't you visit a church and get involved or maybe some voluntary work. Visiting the elderly or picking people up from hospital if you drive.It will make you feel better about yourself. Hope you have a good Christmas.
2006-11-30 12:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by Birdman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
December twenty 6th is depressing because of the fact the previous father in white & purple did no longer provide human beings what they actually wanted and that they understand they might desire to watch for the subsequent Christmas with the intention to work out their objectives made real. needless to say this in no way occurs. yet, i do no longer think of that the festivities are over after the twenty 5th, because of the fact I invented the January 1st dinner occasion: i began out some years in the past this dinner occasion, giving my mothers and fathers and acquaintances supplies on the 1st day of the recent 12 months: that's a sturdy thought because of the fact human beings many times think of that 'the way you began is the way you will circulate on all the 12 months, and how you will end'. a sturdy start up is relatively significant. as a be counted of certainty you will desire to merchandise that January 2d is a very depressing day. No situation in any respect: on the 2d day of the recent 12 months we will start to watch for the January 6th (fiesta the los ninos que nunca crescen). The day after the January 6th is relatively depressing, because of the fact relatively all the dinner occasion are long gone, yet we even have the 'remedium' for this annoing factor: think of bearing directly to the certainty that February 14th is next to return, that the dinner occasion of Fools will come, faster or later, and Easter time, the 1st of would, and all the different satisfied days on your loved ones. in this way you will stay to tell the story overwinning your melancholy, even whilst all the dinner occasion are disappointing and doomed to the unavoidable unhappy end. forgive my undesirable English, yet i'm no longer American
2016-10-13 08:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Expectations and reality just don't match up! That's the key to your depression. I have that same song in my head during this season. I truly enjoy all the glittery decorations on the houses in my neighborhood, but I agree with Scrooge, it's a lot of humbug with very little substance. We are made to believe that spending, spending, spending is the key to yule-time joy. Humbug!
by the way, humbug basically means hype.
2006-11-29 03:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of my friends and family have died during that period and it brings back memories but I've never had it really bad. My brother died over 20 years ago just before Christmas and his best friend committed suicide a few years back (just before Christmas) due to severe depression. He always felt guilt due to being the last person who spoke to my brother before he was knocked down by a van.
2006-11-29 03:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by Stammerman! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am one of those people who gets the blues when everyone else is getting all red and green. I wish I had some advice, but I've never figured out how to not be annoyed and depressed by the inevitable crush of the christmas onslaught.
2006-11-29 03:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok, well if that's the case, then why don't you DO SOMETHING?
When you help others you feel better about yourself, it is that simple. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, read for the elderly at a convelesant home, get friends together an carrol at a hospital, etc.
Life is what you do with it. Do something worthwhile, productive and helpful to others. It will change your life.
2006-11-29 03:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by MadforMAC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i sure do. i don't like christmas i think it is a bad holiday... except for the presents... but i know a lot of people who don't like christmas and there is nothing wrong with that. most people are christans but im not and therefore i look at everything in a different way and i think christmas is a stressful holiday... plus the music sucks!
2006-11-29 06:50:43 · answer #8 · answered by Aomi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the lead in to Christmas up to Christmas Eve, after that, i.e. Christmas I don't really like. I over faced with people, food, drink and TV.
2006-11-29 03:44:04 · answer #9 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have, but I was raped on Christmas Eve. My friend has a simular problem, because her relitives are gone, she gets lonley. Ask yourself, what is missing in your life, and do what you can to change it. If your like me, just try to realize that memories are omly in the past, they are gone. Problems with loss, try making new friends, or "adopting" a family. I'll be praying for you, maby one day you'll have a jolly holiday.
2006-11-29 03:44:57 · answer #10 · answered by cher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋