It's January 1st 2007 and I have been struggling with a lackluster feeling all day. I talked to my wife about it and we were trying to figure out what it could be.
Then when I flicked on our Christmas lights it hit me: I'm depressed because Christmas is over. The songs, the shopping, the family and friends coming over etc have all come to a grinding halt and come next week I return to the hum-drum of work after three weeks of blissful vacation.
Christmas is my favorite time of year since I was a kid but somehow I've enjoyed this one more than any other in a long time. I've been driving around blasting yuletide music on my car stereo, singing to the top of my lungs and people giving me strange looks.
But for right now I feel very sad that Christmas has come to an end. We talk about the 12 days of Christmas ending on the 6th of January (which is traditionally when we throw out the tree) but it's 2nd of January Christmas is over for me and I feel sad. Anyone else feel my pain?
2007-01-01 10:18:22 · 12 answers · asked by Applesauce McGee 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Yes! Oh my God I have found someone I can identify with! Actually, I start to feel it on New Years Eve. The countdown signifies more than a new year for me. It means the end of another holiday season and I hate it. I am so giddy during the holidays and I look forward to it all year. I love the season and all of the beauty and good times it brings with it. I bake, I play and sing songs, I party, I dress the part and am totally in the holiday spirit all season long. So, the down side is very difficult for me. I just feel like the rest of the year is blah, bland and boring. Dreary long days with nothing in particular to celebrate. My kids tease me because they love the summer and only want to get nearer to it. I've always felt alone and crazy because I thought I was the only one who had this problem. Good to know I'm not alone.
2007-01-01 13:18:17 · answer #1 · answered by Noelle S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I feel the same way too. I realized how early upbringing really impacts a person at Christmastime. The classical music station played all Christmas music on Christmas Day (mostly instrumentals) and I recognized all the songs from childhood and knew all the lyrics. Just know that Christmas will be back in less than a year's time. During the year (especially when I travel), I notice items that would make nice Christmas gifts and I buy them and put them away til after Thanksgiving. I actually prefer to work up to Christmas eve because the work is slow and easy and then I take some vacation time later in the year.
2007-01-01 17:10:36 · answer #2 · answered by Santa C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely love the Christmas season also, and actually begin decorating October 1st!
I used to suffer from Christmas letdown, but no longer since I've grown older and adjusted my thinking.
Now, I am already looking forward to next year, but not wishing my life away, instead I am filled with hope that this year will be better than last and that my husband and I will continue to be blessed with good health and love.
Live life to the fullest each and everyday and take a minute to count your blessings!
Everyday is a gift and the spirit of the Christmas season should live in your heart all year long!
2007-01-01 13:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by ghostwriter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. I love the holidays too and we made some great memories, but the holiday time is a lot of extra work too. I own a business and year-end puts a lot of pressure on my with accounting. Hard to do with the holidays. Now I can get down to work. I am really sad that my kids will be going back to school. I love having them at home.
2007-01-01 10:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by WonderWoman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Over the last five years I had begun to have increasingly withdraw into a downward spiral of depression..
But now with the method I can fully focus my energy and thoughts into a decisive line on how to make my life better constantly. And it works like magic! I'm beginning to attract people to me once again and things have just been looking up since then.
Helping you eliminate depression?
2016-05-16 04:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to enjoy the prospect of spring--new life, longer days, new growth, summer sunshine, holidays etc and if that doesnt work remember that the whole christmas hoopla will start up again some time around mid august or thereabouts !! There now, bet that cheered you up !
2007-01-01 10:24:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
it really sucks that winter is gonna hit us with some blasts. see, what happens, is that we get so caught up during the holidays, and we hav smtg to look forward to, we dont conisder the merciless cold of winter. now that the holidays are over, we have to get back to reality. no more great meals, family, friends, tv specials, gifts.....just a harsh reality that contributes to our depresssion.
and yes, school and work suck
2007-01-01 11:03:37 · answer #7 · answered by tmlfan 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am with luvz2puff. I get really nauseated watching the frenzied shopping and the need for everything to be perfect: gifts, wrapping, meal, decorations, the whole bit.
I find that concentrating on the new year helps rid myself of the depression somewhat.
2007-01-01 10:26:07 · answer #8 · answered by 60s Chick 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sorry to take heed to that expensive. i understand how that feels. I have been given a canine for companionship while i grew to become into residing with my abusive husband. i grew to become into in a state on the different part of the rustic from all human beings I knew and enjoyed. My canine grew to become into my very superb pal and my in uncomplicated terms better half different than a kitten a have been given some months later. approximately 0.5 a 300 and sixty 5 days later I have been given help from my pals and family individuals and controlled to return homestead and get divorced. however the worst section grew to become into i could no longer carry my canine or cat with me. i grew to become into coronary heart broken. I ignored my canine plenty. yet I had to get him a sparkling homestead. 2 years later i ultimately grew to become into in a position to get yet another canine and that i won't be in a position to precise how plenty he assists in preserving my melancholy down. you're youthful, so your mum and dad will pose an argument because of the fact that they decide for on in case you're able to have a canine or no longer. i could instruct them your submit and all of the solutions you bought, and even perhaps get your mom to talk to a counselor to help convince her. they are in a position to prescribe a canine to you as a anti-depressant in a fashion. If conceivable, are not getting a small canine. they have a tendency to be extra jealous of alternative animals and human beings. Chi's are the WORST approximately this. And in case you do get yet another canine and it starts off to instruct symptoms of jealousy get it into practise! do no longer in uncomplicated terms supply it away. You gotta paintings along with your animals. confer with a vet approximately belongings you're able to do to repair a behavioral undertaking like that. *EDIT: do no longer pay any interest to Clockwork_Knight. canine DO experience jealousy between many different thoughts. confident canine have a prey rigidity, yet i do no longer think of it is the case along with your canine. I paintings with canine each and every of the time at a domestic dog-daycare and have completed a great number of examine on canine habit. canine have a great number of thoughts. Clockwork is merely being a jerk.
2016-10-06 07:28:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I kinda feel that I have been robbed from my Christmas because my uncle died 9 days before Christmas.
2007-01-01 10:21:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋