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Does anyone feel particularly sad or happy at Christmas?
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Well I feel quite sad, mainly because my mum used to stay with us at Christmas and my in-laws came Boxing Day because it was my m-i-l's birthday so we made it a bit special for her and our dogs used to love it too, but they are all gone now so yes, I do feel quite sad at Christmas. x
If Im perfectly honest since my husband died 15 years ago I havent felt interested in celebrating Christmas at all. I am grateful for a lovely daughter who lives nearby by but Im always glad when its over.
We generally enjoy Christmas, because my stepson would come join us over the Christmas/New Year holiday..... but sadly my stepson passed away in october, so my wife really isn’t in a happy frame of mind, but we have our tree and lights up for our Grandchildren, and I try to lift peoples spirits here because of the virus and lockdown
Of course its going to be difficult for you this Christmas with the loss of your stepson. But you are making the best of things by putting up your tree and decorations. My thoughts are with the people like yourselves who have lost a loved one and the people who live alone who have no one to share it with.It will be a strange Christmas for everyone this year as so many families are not going to be able to get together anyway.
Take care and keep safe.
Chrys x
am sorry about your stepson but at least you have a loving wife and grandkids,many are totally alone
I love Christmas but I always get emotional. We go to church in the morning. The first carol is always ' O come all ye faithful' and for some reason it has me in tears! Every time. There's no logic and it doesn't trigger any memories. Weird.
I'm quite sad because this is my first Christmas without either of my parents 😊🎄😕🎅
Hi wiserlady, I think I'm probably like a lot of people who put on a 'game face' for Christmas but inwardly feel sad or nostalgic. It's an event to get through for me, though I do enjoy the years in which I can spend time with family.
I personally do not like Christmas, it has been made too commercialised and puts too much pressure on people to spend spend spend especially on parents with younger children, although I am of a different belief system I still believe that it is a religious festival and should be celebrated as such.
I feel really really low this time of year.
I call it the holiday blues. It is comforting to know I am not the only one.
Hi Kitten 58,It might be the holiday blue's for some, but not for me. Both of my Parents passed away in December. My Dad passed away on December 10th, it was my Mum's Birthday on Boxing Day, and she passed away on December 31st, New Year's Eve. Then my only Brother got killed on January 21st. So for me Christmas is a very sad time .I used to love Christmas .
But not anymore. Although ive got a Wonderful caring Husband, 3 Lovely Son's, 4 Grandchildren and 10 Great Grandchildren, it's just not the same anymore.
I'm sorry you feel so low.I hope that you can somehow enjoy Christmas this year, despite the Pandemic. I know it's hard, but I wish you all the best.🤗🌹.
Take Care and Stay Safe.
Sorry to hear about all your losses. My troubling month is October so that is when it begins. My father passed away on October just before my 19th birthday. my son in law, he was 39, in October also, both of cancer and left my daughter and their 2 children. Then I figured out that my wife of 28 years is a narcissist and causing most of my physical symptoms. This year it was my younger, 4 years, brother who passed away of an aortic aneurysm.
This leaves me work the choice of staying in my suicidal depression, or get up and live, help my daughters. I figure I may as well help them with the time I have left. Kicking myself in the butt now cause I have been on the pity pot long enough.
OMG.I am so very sorry. No wonder you are so depressed, youv'e got reason to be. I know that sometimes you can be in a room full of people and still feel lonely and sad. I hope that you can have some kind of a good Christmas this year.
And I wish you and the rest of your family all the best for 2021.💕 .xx
Yes it does. Last year and this year Ive been happy that is bc last year I didnt put pressure on myself to get the holidays going and running. Last year and this year it's been low key holidays not too much food and not many people over. I usually put a lot of stress on myself when I host holidays so these past years have been a big relief. But I know what it feels like to feel sad during the holidays. It's very common for different reasons. I thought at one time I suffered from SAD but I dont.
I feel very sad and lonely, live alone, I am an agnostic, so I do not believe in this particular 'event' too heavily commercialised, wrong people making too much money out of it! BUT I always enjoy the family get together, meeting family and friends that I have not seen in a long time, more than ever this year! I have always been a sickly bunny, retired early because of bad health, have been in various periods of isolation, one of my sister has organised the family binge, but due to diabetes and pancreatitis and knowing I would really dull everybody's day so have given it a miss this year, she lives 5 mts walk away! Yes I am really sad and lonely!😗🥴😞😖😣
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