You folks have really nailed it! Like some, I don't feel this depression/indifference is necessarily something that needs to be medicated.......it's just a quiet time, a time for reflection and maybe even some isolation, so I can metaphorically lick the wounds this year has inflicted and return to a stronger position in time. I wish it didn't have to happen at Christmastime, but it is what it is, and fighting it doesn't make it any better. Everything is magnified at this time of the year anyway......emotions are closer to the surface and the line between OK and not OK becomes very thin.

This, too, shall pass. That's the upside to bipolar---nothing lasts forever, not even the bad times.