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Originally Posted by JIMMYJAM34
This is something hits me every year on 26th December, I know its coming, I do my best to prepare but still it gets me.
I suppose it all builds from Halloween, we have Halloween which I enjoy and as soon as thats over all the Christmas adverts start, shops start putting up Christmas displays and playing Christmas music, then there is thanks giving for those in the US, then its back to Christmas mode with shopping for gifts, Christmas movies, Nativity plays etc all building up to the big day of 25th December, Christmas day itself is never as good as we imagine but as soon as its over its back to reality with a crash and thats what I feel now.
The weather is dark and grey and horrible with no fairy lights or decorations, damn all to look forward to for months and its back to normal life and another year of general hum drum and borning ness. I just feel like I want to lie in my bed as have no motivation for anything now.
Anyone else get like this? I never had this as a kid just as an adult.
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I am going through this right now. Not only is it the holidays, but my daughter's birthday is on Thanksgiving (well, she was born on Thanksgiving), my wife's birthday is on Christmas Day and my son's birthday is on Jan. 05. It is like going at 100 MPH and then a complete stop. It is and absolutely horrible feeling.
I haven't felt it this bad until this year. My little girl is now 4 and my little boy just turned 1. I am so depressed I cannot wrap my head around why. Everything around my house is intertwined from the past four years. I cannot pass pictures, art work, look at videos, watch certain movies, listen to certain songs, go into a bedroom or just even think about anything without totally and utterly breaking down. It starts first thing in the morning and goes all day. It is overwhelming and crippling.
I feel that I have missed everything that I am remembering, but I was there. I know that doesn't make any sense, but neither does the way I am feeling. I have nothing but happy memories to remember. It is driving me crazy!