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In reply to the discussion: I'm struggling. [View all]Ohiogal
(31,956 posts)43. You are not alone.
I feel a sort of simmering anxiety inside my chest all the time lately. The recent disgusting pardons and the two recent shootings in my states capital of Columbus arent helping.
I never was real hung ho on the holidays like a lot of folks, I made it special for my kids when they were small, but were all grownups now, and every year I seem to run out of gas for it.
My husband puts up most of the decorations. I do cook and host two special dinners and thats about all I can do any more.
Sometimes it helps just to know many others feel the same way and that we arent alone.
Hopeful for better things ahead next month.
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You are not alone. And the realization that 99% of our sadness is the direct fault of the person
Atticus
Dec 2020
#4
You've eloquently expressed what so many of us have been feeling this year, each one of us has
chia
Dec 2020
#8
Our DIL is recovering from COVID, as did Mr Nay's brother and his wife. They have come out
Nay
Dec 2020
#68
more common than not as depression is prevalent from all directions, luckily recreational
beachbumbob
Dec 2020
#20
sooner or later Tn will as its about revenue to the state coffers, the numbers out of Illinois for
beachbumbob
Dec 2020
#47
I look back to Christmas 2016, right after Trump was elected, and recall having a small glimmer
sop
Dec 2020
#44
I think a lot of us feel discouraged. We are on the home stretch to sanity, though.
PatrickforO
Dec 2020
#82
I was looking for Ode to Joy and that video came up ... it had been years since I had seen it
Botany
Dec 2020
#98
I got the Thursday "ask" (for today) for our Call to Action email. I wrote a "poem"
calimary
Dec 2020
#87
I am so so sorry all this is coming down on you right now...esp all your losses..
samnsara
Dec 2020
#90
It is a rough time. The effects of covid are overwhelming on so many levels.
Vivienne235729
Dec 2020
#138
Tonight in East TN it'll be in the teens feel like 4. I took in a stray dog
SammyWinstonJack
Dec 2020
#149
You're not alone in this. I care about the meaning of Christmas, but not what it has turned into.
sprinkleeninow
Dec 2020
#190