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 Post subject: Anybody else struggle at this time of year?
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:10 pm 
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Over here we have a summer Christmas, which means we get both holidays at once. I have 3 weeks off - I'm exhausted and run down. I desperately need a holiday. The weather is mostly stunning which always makes me want to get out of the house, day and night.

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What is it with this loneliness thing at Christmas? Every year I get this. Combination of my sense of not belonging, my loneliness is a state of mind condition, but also of the sheer reality that I'm on my own so much. Everyone is soooo busy this time of year - parties, dinners, drinks, God knows what everyone's so busy doing, but that they are renders me with a clearer calendar than in the middle of Winter! This happens every year and I can't help but wonder how if everyone's so busy, I have not been asked along to things. It's a very lonely time for me. I'm so desperate for holidays but feel so down that i will be spending them mostly alone. I'd love to skip the country but I'm also broke.

Oh, I just hate this time of year. It just makes me feel so unimportant, left out, excluded and lonely. All of which renders christmas a period of depression, which makes me dread it every single year.

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 Post subject: Re: Anybody else struggle at this time of year?
PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:48 pm 
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Hi Sarah,

I do understand. I don't have a relationship with my family because......well, I can't. I have been apart from them for over 15 years. Recently (just over 2 years ago) I moved to a small northern town where I didn't know anybody, except for the partner I moved here with (we broke up shortly after the move and only I remain here). I have made friends but they have their own lives and families etc. I do socialize, as well as enjoy me-time (I work and go to school and sometimes feel overstimulated at the end of my days so I am on the solitary side). Normally, because I am so accustomed to it, I am fine with just being able to rely on me. However, when it's close to Christmas, I panic a bit (especially when I'm single). Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I worry that being alone at Christmas is an indicator that I am a bad or unlovable person. I don't tell anybody because sometimes I feel like loneliness is a shameful and awkward thing to talk about. I do have a friend's house that I am going to, but nowhere I belong. I am also having trouble because I just ended another relationship with someone I really really loved, in part because of the circumstances and in part because I went all kinds of BPD like I haven't in years. That was just a couple months ago, and it adds a bit of extra sting to the loneliness.

So, in feeling alone, you are not alone.

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 Post subject: Re: Anybody else struggle at this time of year?
PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:28 pm 
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Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I worry that being alone at Christmas is an indicator that I am a bad or unlovable person. I don't tell anybody because sometimes I feel like loneliness is a shameful and awkward thing to talk about. I do have a friend's house that I am going to, but nowhere I belong.


That pretty much sums it up. I know I can easily fall prey to being a 'victim' as well, and fear talking about my loneliness at Christmas will inevitably put pressure or guilt onto those I can spend time with.

I do see my family, but I find that my yearning for love and belonging is only enhanced by the reality of being with them. I know I should appreciate what I do have bc Christmas would be much worse if they weren't there at all.

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 Post subject: Re: Anybody else struggle at this time of year?
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I know, right? I am lucky because I honestly have some of the most amazing friends a girl could hope for. If I didn't have them, I don't know what I would do. I'm going to work on focusing on enjoying where I am and who I am with.

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