Grief during the holidays
Hi everyone! I hope you are well. For many, this is the holiday season with Thanksgiving and then Christmas coming up. It's hard enough managing grief on normal days but it can be harder to manage it with these special occasions.
How does grief impact your holiday experience?
@Hope
Actually I can even feel any kind of happiness in new year or Christmas I'm sorry for saying this sad thing, because after that comes the anniversary of the death of my grandfather and grandmother, and I also come across bad memories, so at this time of the year I always get very hurt, and I relive everything and get depressed, and I try to be stronger, but it's also exhausting.
My dad passed four days before Christmas so it’s a really difficult time of year for me. I just feel bitter and sad around the holidays. All the music saying my troubles are set aside and it’s such a happy time of year are upsetting. Receiving emails and other promotions on “gifts for dad” feel mocking. People telling me to cheer up because it’s the holidays but how could I when I’m grieving my dad whom I lost during the holidays and I have very haunting memories from it. Wish dad could be here. We’d go to his house on Christmas Eve and now I don’t know what we’re doing
Thought life couldn’t be anymore empty. Now it is a void in a void in a void… in a void… ♾️
@Hope I have stopped going anywhere.