Hello @A MyDepressionTeam Member, wishing a good holiday and did you go to the family thanksgiving dinner? I feel you too, because I am caring for my mother. None of the family visits her. Do the best for you. You took care of Mom and now think about you. It's important.

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Holidays aren’t joyful around where I live just because my family doesn’t know how to enjoy life. They complain about anything and everything, they never seem happy, they always seem fake in their responses.

I enjoy the holidays for the reason that my grandma is 91, and won’t be here much longer (I’m just realist) and I want to enjoy the big memories with her. I can’t spend small moments with her, she drives me insane.. my mothers is addicted to pain pills, and my father isn’t in the picture.. I haven’t had the best times around holidays.

They can if you allow yourself to get too involved with the preparations and planning. Don't bite off more than you can chew. Find ways to enjoy the holidays. What is it you like most about holidays?

@A MyDepressionTeam Member so sorry to read all of this and the ones of us that have families have anxiety and depression and want to stay in another room or completely away from them but disease does this.
I hope that you can get things in order and move close to your sister or where ever you want to be.
Hugs from Alabama!

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I was alone with no family. I lost the last of my family in OH ten years ago. My sister lives in VA and does not ride. I do not like the holidays. I lost my cousin at Thanksgiving ten years ago. I took care of her for over seventeen years. I lost my parents in December ten days apart several years ago. I do not have any husband or children. I did not want a husband due to fact I did not trust men. I was raped several times in my life. I was abused at a child by my father and other men. I am in seventies now but look like I am in my forties. I have three degrees; I am looking for a job so I can move in with my sister. She lives alone and has pulmonary hypertensin disease. I have been trying for seven years to get the money to move but something always happens, COVID, my health or depression and anxiety. and my rent went to $1350 a mth and my income is only $1511. I am trying very hard to find a job so that I can move and get a car. My car was reposed because I could not pay the payments.