Dont like shopping dont like having to lie about being ok when im not its so false. Only pretend for kids have to work christmas day when i should get disability alowance joints pains and a lot worse some days. auto immune disease.....
Just feels like hard work? shopping on internet make life easier.
sorry being misserable feel like screaming some days....
I hate Christmas. Its getting to the point where I want to just sleep through the WHOLE of December. It sucks, big time. I dont understand how people look forward to it. Its so boring. My family cant stand to be in the same room as each other so it leads to arguments & tears & everyone getting drunk & verbally abusive to others. I try to keep out of it but if I leave the room, they say I'm RUDE!
The adverts are making me feel sick every time I see them on TV. So dont worry youre not alone in this. We are sadly in the minority though
I feel like I'm in even less of a minority for not caring either way. But then I don't celebrate it, and I'm not forced to either; if I did I probably would hate it.
I hate Christmas too. I do all my shopping online and buy people books or CDs. I hate the celebrations the most, they give me total sensory and social overload. Last time I went to a Christmas party I had a panic attack because it was too loud, too bright and too many people were there.
My ideal Christmas would be at home alone (or perhaps with my dad) reading books and perhaps going for a relaxing walk. No bloody celebrations!
Also, Christmas songs used to make me scream and cry as a kid. Now I just avoid them.
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I have no one to buy presents for/receive presents from and never really have, so its just like every day of the year.. except all the films on the tv make me want to vom.
I like a lot of Christmassy things but there's a lot I don't like. Not keen on doing the Christmas shopping or listening to Christmas songs, going to parties etc. but I like sitting by the tree, drinking hot chocolate with brandy in, dressing in sparkles and spending time with people I love.
I hate Christmas too...the only real advantage is that it gives us who are in school a break. But I don't have anybody to give presents to, and I don't want to give presents to anyone anyway. My parents still give me presents though which makes me feel badly...it wouldn't bother me if they didn't. And they HAVE to put up a tree...ugh. Fortunately, I can avoid most of the crappy music (just for the record, there is good music written by real composers that's Christmas related...that stuff's good).
Don't be such a miserable bloody lot! Christmas started out as a religious time, and of course still is for many people. But for many more it is a family time when people get together and enjoy the warmth of family togetherness, despite Uncle Joe getting too pissed and taking it out on Aunty Mabel!
Weigh in, enjoy your family - and never forget, life is not a rehearsal ...
^ Tony, it might have more of a family meaning to many, but out of all the popular holidays, it is arguably the most (or one of the most) religious ones. I don't celebrate Christmas at all, because that is how I understand my non-religiousness, and that is the decision I have made. I don't think this is any more "right" or "wrong" than anyone else's decision. Quite a number of people have had bad experiences in relation to this period, or other reasons to dislike it. I know that is not at all what you meant, but I felt that your comment was undermining all of the above. In our society, there is too much of having to put on a "happy face" and pretending there's nothing wrong. I feel it is (or should be) legitimate to dislike Christmas if that is the way things are, without having to pretend to be happy about it.
Weigh in, enjoy your family - and never forget, life is not a rehearsal ...
Tony.
No family really.
I enjoy it in my own way though.. just not in this all singing all dancing deck the halls drink all the alcohol eat all the food kind of way i think im supposed to.
C'mon you guys - it's entirely what you want it to be, whether you regard it as a religious festival or a family thing or whatever else, is entirely up to you. But let me suggest, you Christmas-haters, when you've had your miserable Christmas-hating morning on your Christmas-hating own, go down to your local pub at, say 1 o'clock, and talk to the people gathered there. Sure, some of them may have had a pint or two (and why not?) but the atmosphere will be one of "bonhommie". They'll warm to you, given half a chance.
What a very nice thing, just once in the year ... Join them, rejoice!
I've been in hospital this time the past 2 years and so it's great not to be and to be able to get all my christmas shopping done and have my tree up already. I'm looking forward to a great christmas with my sister, her fiance and their two young children. Christmas with children is magical!
"Everything is possible through Christ, who gives me strength". Phillipians 4:13
I'm not particularly a huge fan of Christmas, for various reason and past experiences of it.
Although I do enjoy driving around and seeing all the Christmas trees in people windows (I don't mean that in a creepy way...o.O), it just always gives off the impression that everywhere is so warm and cosy and content. Even if that's not the case for many.
Oh, and I do enjoy being able to devour a tin of Roses chocolates with no judgement...because it's Christmas.
My daddy comes home and stays for a a week!!! So that bit is good. It does have some relatives stress, and i dont enjoy it when im having bad times so i get what you lot are on about, but this year its going to be so lovely, just me and dad for a week while mum and bro are away.
It doesnt have to be religious i think, i use it to celebrate just being at home and what i have, with no religious meaning.
He was no longer jean valjean but no. 24601 -les miserable
Some of life's mysteries will never be solved, such as why, after spending an entire evening listenong to Bach, do I find myself humming "the birdie song".......
I am reaching, but i fall, and the stars are black and cold, as i stare into the void of a world that cannot hold- les miserables
I usually love Christmas, probably far more than a 22-year-old should! But we are lucky in my family, we've always been very very close and loved being together, so it's a real family time for me, not everyone is so lucky.
This year I'm kind of switching between the two extremes. I love the build-up, the songs, the decorations and everything still. But it's the first Christmas without my mum and I'm dreading it so much, the thought of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day just makes me want to cry.
But I'm going to try and watch a Christmas film on Christmas Eve like we usually do, and even though it's going to be horrible, I'm going to try and enjoy the good moments on Christmas Day and have as nice a day as possible. :)
If it weren't for my family in Cyprus that keep dragging me over, I wouldn't celebrate Christmas at all.
Last edited by Steel Maiden : 29-11-2011 at 10:42 AM.
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PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I hate christmas... enforced family time, fghts, arguments, too much food, too much alcohol, the knowledge that most people are enjoying it, the fact that I cannot spend it with my partner, the fact that you cannot avoid it (it's all over TV and shops), I have no money but still feel that have to get people things so end up struggling to afford rent or food even more than usual, one particular christmas song triggers flashbacks, and I miss my children I know I never got to celebrate a christmas with them so have no right to but christmas seems to remind me - maybe because of the whole family thing
I know it makes me sound miserable... to most people I just kind of say that I am indifferent to christmas, it's just any other day, only differance is that I seemingly have to see my family while during the rest of the year I can find reasons not to see them. But in reality it's more than that... I start dreading christmas in about october, I know it's coming, and I know how it's going to be, so in a way it ruins 3 months. I know this is my own fault for dwelling on it, and that I should be able to get past this, but every year I say to myself "this year will be different", "this year I won't let it get to me", "this year it will not rule me" and every year I fail... which in some ways makes it worse as I should be able to at least pretend for everyoone elses benefit if nothing else
