Xmas Blues

[poliphilo]

OK. I've had enough. The Solstice was two days ago. Let's not do this any more.

I hate it how corporate it is- how we're all expected to be doing the same things at the same times, feeling the same emotions.

But there's no getting off the ride. We know exactly what to expect; those chugging climbs, those swooping falls. The little train has started off. The safety bar is locked in place.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

There is no safety bar, I can tell you that. For years, before I started therapy and medications, the crash I experienced after Christmas was just short of paralyzing. Mom could always count on tears the first day I had to go back to school, and as I got older I realized that almost as soon as Christmas night I started sleeping almost all the hours I wasn't working.

It still happens. Oh, not as badly or dramatically as all that. but, whether there is more daylight is relative when the Holiday Lights are taken away - a few at a time, but none the less taken away. All the good fellowship and tolerance everyone seems to feel disappears, to be replaced with what seems like twice as much gloom. The weather intensifies - we already have 56 inches of snow this year, which puts us well on track for 200+ before the winter is through.

I'm depressing myself!

I think Eeyore was 'born' right after Christmas, in the dark season.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've always thought the two months after Christmas were the grimmest time of the year. You know the days are getting longer, but it doesn't feel like it. Instead the weather just gets grungier and grungier.

I enjoy the onset of winter, but I'm awful sick of it by the end of February.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you.