Depressed After Thanksgiving

Hi Indygirl,

The holidays can be depressing for lots of people. Although we love our famililes, we don't "pick them" and sometimes family get togethers push those inner buttons from childhood. Have you tried journaling and/or meditating? Sometimes when we just quiet ourselves enough, the answers come. Alcohol is a depressant so definitely don't turn to alcohol. YOu are doing the right thing by making an appointment with your therapist. Hope you feel better. Keep looking around for what you can be "grateful" for and you are sure to feel better at least for a while. It's a good habit to get into and smile too because the brain doesn't know the difference between a real smile and a forced one. If you can't smile - watch a funny movie. Take care.

you know holidays are a funny thing, we put so much into them, especially if we have kids and you get to be around people and look forward to them and then when they are over you don't really know what to do with yourself and it is kind of a let down until you get back into your old routine, I don't know about the rest of you but I am better when I am busy because I dont' have much time to think about things so when the rush is over I am left with too much time.  During the holidays it is difficult because you are trying so hard to be happy and sometimes just can't.  My daughter keeps saying that I am blah this year and it isn't fun.  Even though I am trying really hard to keep things normal somehow it isn't coming across that way and I feel so bad.  She is also getting older so it is different than when she was little and I think it is difficult for both of us to not have that same excitement. 

Anyway,

hope all of you are doing well and trying to enjoy these hectic and trying times.

Take care,

scaredy