Here I am again with my typical holiday post. I know many of you out there are excited for Christmas and anxious for all the relatives to gather and to feast on food and open gifts and all that stuff.
Others are majorly depressed and even suicidal.
I used to fall into the majorly depressed category on Christmas, so I took the pressure away by not celebrating it. No tree. No gifts. No special food. No family. None of that stuff. It’s not that I’m a scrooge. It’s that I have to put myself first and do things the way I need to do them in order to survive.
It’s okay if you treat the holidays as any other day too. It really is! Don’t consider it as giving in to depression. See it as making adjustments so you can live a better life! Don’t put pressure on yourself to be happy. Don’t feel guilty if you are sad or even mad. Give yourself permission to just be yourself. And trust me when I say I understand how you feel!
If you are celebrating Christmas, I wish you much happiness and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
For the rest of us, I hope you have a great Saturday! It’s just another day!
Darlene
XOXO
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