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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 105850"><p>Star - </p><p></p><p>I'm so sorry. Like MB, I'm an all or nothing kinda gal. There have been a couple of years that I could have gone completely without Christmas because of my own depression, not because of kid issues. And last year, the kids put the tree up like the week before Christmas - my tree was always up the day after Thanksgiving. I was so sick with undx'd blockages in my arteries and couldn't do it and really didn't care to. It just took too much, I felt so bad, difficult child was spiralling in a big, big way and it was just one more thing I was going to have to fake my way through. Had my kids been older, I wouldn't have done it at all.</p><p></p><p>That said, I think the others are right. Don't give up completely. Rather, don't give <em>in</em>. If you let it, what you're feeling right now will consume you and you will have to fight one helluva battle to overcome it. Instead of doing a tree, maybe just buy a poinsettia. Adopt a family or volunteer at the soup kitchen or at the hospital or a nursing home. </p><p></p><p>Maybe now is the time to start new traditions and make new memories. Reclaim this holiday for you.</p><p></p><p>(((((hugs)))))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 105850"] Star - I'm so sorry. Like MB, I'm an all or nothing kinda gal. There have been a couple of years that I could have gone completely without Christmas because of my own depression, not because of kid issues. And last year, the kids put the tree up like the week before Christmas - my tree was always up the day after Thanksgiving. I was so sick with undx'd blockages in my arteries and couldn't do it and really didn't care to. It just took too much, I felt so bad, difficult child was spiralling in a big, big way and it was just one more thing I was going to have to fake my way through. Had my kids been older, I wouldn't have done it at all. That said, I think the others are right. Don't give up completely. Rather, don't give [i]in[/i]. If you let it, what you're feeling right now will consume you and you will have to fight one helluva battle to overcome it. Instead of doing a tree, maybe just buy a poinsettia. Adopt a family or volunteer at the soup kitchen or at the hospital or a nursing home. Maybe now is the time to start new traditions and make new memories. Reclaim this holiday for you. (((((hugs))))) [/QUOTE]
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