One thing I always find really challenging during the holidays is...[share with the community]

@Laura

I always find it a challenge not to eat too much. I like food and thaksgiving gives me an excuse to eat more

Depression always lurks during the holidays. My family is dysfunctional and I always feel a little bit of an outsider at friends' houses despite how welcoming they are.

I am not connected with my family anymore. I haven't talked to my mother since April or my father and brother since September. There isn't anything I can do to fix it either because I don't even know where they are and what my mother has done in the last 3 years is irredeemable. Sometimes it makes me sad to think I'm not going to see them around the holidays.

One thing I find really challenging during the holidays is to control my shape, which means not overeating, not under eating, and having the motivation to work out too

One I find challenging during the holidays is all the food, i tend to overeat and eat my feelings.

Depression, anxiety about eating, and intense loneliness bc the love of my life is dating someone else and I've loved her for almost a year and yet she doesn't like me back yet

I find challenging, trying to keep anxiety and depression from going out of control, I love what the holidays represent,

Knowing that Christmas is all about consumerism and greed nowadays and not about family and togetherness. 😔

Social interactions .

@Laura ....to smile and hang out with my relatives even if I'm anxious and depressed, especially during the holidays.