In every online community I’ve ever seen, winter depression has been a noticeable thing, and this site is no exception. The combination of weather and being indoors, having to deal with shitty family over the holidays, being lonely over the holidays, etc. is bad enough, but I feel like this year is worse than usual due to the election and other events.
I don’t know if recent bad vibes might be in part due to this, but regardless, please treat both yourself and others with kindness, at least as much you’re able to. Also, don’t hesitate to open up to people you trust if there’s anything on your mind you want to discuss.
Does anyone else have any good tips for dealing with it? Please let us know in the comments, and thank you for reading this.
Let’s see here, I work 3rd so society already considers me an outcast, live in rural ohio so finding anyone remotely closely aligned may as well be functionally impossible.
Seasonal depression for me ends up being all year. New years, nobody to be with. Valentines day, “look at all these happy couples, experiencing a part of life you’ll never be able to have, get fucked loser”. 4th of July (seriously, it’s the 2nd closest thing to a community event here), I really hate being in large groups of people, plus I just don’t care for overpriced carnival food/games. My birthday, it’s become nothing more than a reminder that I’m another year older and… oh right I turned 30 this year, well we all know what society thinks of a single man who hasn’t ever dated really at all. Halloween, homeschooled church kid so I never had any feelings on it at all, besides hating it because I got to watch other have something and I just couldn’t. Thanksgiving/Christmas, I’ve been avoiding it mostly because my grandparents have somewhat given me the implication that I should’ve been married and had a kid at least 5 years ago at the latest.
Self care to me just ends up being me continually finding distractions to not ending it in spite wanting to.