I Am Often Sad At Christmas Time

I don't enjoy Christmas-time anymore.   Too many bad memories and frustrations to deal with.  In fact, the whole two-week period between Christmas and New Year is just something I have to get through, not a time of fun.
When I was...

It is around this time of the year I get the most sick.  Around this time of the year, I'm quietly depressed for seemingly no reason.  From the age of 18 months until I was seven years old, I would break out in sores...

Being alone doesnt bother me anymre, threw rough times ive had no one to really talk to. im used to all this bull shit, i hate this time of year because i feel alone the most when sues family gets together i usually go to the christas...

During the season i often feel at my worst. There is just something that drains me of happiness at the time. Maybe it has something to do with my family and the way holidays go down.. i don't know. After the season is over i am often so...

I know its too early to talk about Christmas...but someone has just brought it to mind...and it has brought home how lonely i am....i feel so completely alone at the moment...and i think that Christmas may be worse...
My friend asked...

Over the years it has changed from a large family dinner to around three or four of us being able to make the effort for one day. 
There are things that are skirted around and their absence seems to squeal louder than if they were...

As a child most of my christmas' were spent crying. My brother used to make sure of that. He would either hit me, or just be cruel and evil. I remember one year he broke my mums ribs.....I ran to the phonebox and called childline...I...

i hate to say it, but i hate Christmas!! i used to love it, but now i hate it, mostly cos of all the hype we get nowadays!!! and by the time Christmas actually comes around, im already fed up with it all!!!

I am always sad when it's christmas time. I don't have any kind of family to go and spend christmas with I think last year was probably to only good christmas I have ever had. The rest I remember my dad just getting high and my...

I just really don't have anyone to spend it with, everyone is either busy or away. My family's not exactly a very happy/close family so it's sad.

i like the idea of Christmas, but i just hate the way it gets over hyped and over comercialise'd these days, and all for what? one day and then its over!!

I am always sad at Christmastime. It's because I always spend it alone. I have very severe social anxiety & agoraphobia & am too afraid to spend Christmas with family because of that. My mom, whom I live with, always spends it with...