anyone else with new year's blues?

[lmh2402]

i am so depressed and anxious today. not too much different than any other new year's day i can remember. i really hate this holiday (eve & day). not sure why, but the post-holiday slow down, combined with the prospects of ongoing winter...especially this winter being in our new suburban town... it all leaves me feeling so unsettled and nervous

i totally undid christmas today b/c the sight of the tree and other decorations seemed so sad and depressing.

DH is "sympathetic," but he cannot seem to relate and simply says over and over, "what's wrong? everything is fine. it will be fine..." and i can't really explain it any better than i did above...

just wondering if anyone else is feeling this way?

[LarsMal]

YES!! I am so glad I'm not alone. I've been walking around in a funk all day. Unsettled and nervous is the perfect description. I get this way at the end of the holidays, too. I'm not taking our stuff down until next weekend because the ILs are coming on Thursday and DH wants everything up since that will be our Christmas with them.

For me it's mostly about not being around family. I've been with my parents, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and very close friends almost daily for the last 10 days. Our good friends left this morning and I immediately felt depressed. I'll actually see my family again tomorrow for my grandmother's birthday, but I still feel very unsettled today.

I definitely get like this every year, though. I'm sorry you're feeling this way, too, but it really does feel better knowing I'm not alone!

[kozachka]

I am a bit tired from going to bed late and drinking, but not too, since DS was content with watching cartoons and playing on iPhone for quite a while this morning so I got to sleep in. I am not looking forward to going back to work on Monday, January is going to be a very busy month for me. And I am looking forward even less to DH leaving the country on Jan 9th for 5-6 weeks, which means that I'd be in charge of picking up DS from school, all activities, cooking and DS homework. So I can relate to a point.

[WolfpackMom]

Big time, been feeling this way for several days now. I cant get out of the funk, I dont even feel like its holiday related, but maybe new year anxiety related. Who knows, its definitely starting to effect the whole house though (my being bummed out), meh I am just barely keeping it together right now.

[daisymommy]

I thought it was just me. I hate it when the decorations come down, and the house looks sterile, void, and lifeless. And for some strange reason, I'm dreading 2011. I feel in my gut that it's going to be a bad year for me. I never feel this way, so I'm worried.

[hellokitty]

I'm feeling the same way. We had a horrible holiday this yr. Crazy family members on both sides, and then the day after Christmas our family started the stomach flu. Three of us are still not quite back to, 'normal' yet. Our house is a disaster, I am in a bad mood and feel physically yucky from the stomach flu. I also feel overwhelmed and am annoyed that we, "wasted" our winter break from school being sick and basically didn't accomplish anything positive. DH and I have been bickering, b/c we're both tired from being sick and taking care of sicks kids and we didn't enjoy the holidays. The baby has also decided that he's going to stop napping and has been a complete crab and having meltdowns all day b/c he is too tired. He's making me want to pull my hair out! Anyway, I'm feeling like I'm in a negative, pissy mood, not a good way to start out a new yr.

[jenfromnj]

I often get into a bit of a funk at this time of year. I think it's a combination of some of the things already mentioned--so little daylight and so few chances to be outside for extended periods, everything is so gray/drab outside. For me, and it's always kind of sad to take down the tree/decorations, and the winter seems so very long after the holidays are over, knowing that it won't be nice outside again for at least 3 months or so.

The 'burbs, while I love it here, are definitely not a very happening place in the dead of winter. The playgrounds around here are dead, too, and even things like Gymboree classes last winter were sparsely populated (I'm hoping that was just b/c of the N1H1 craziness, and that it will be better this year).

We are just trying to stay busy, and making as many plans as we can for the coming weeks, to take new classes, set up playdates and dinners, etc., in hopes of getting over the hump. I'm also trying to set up some "special" outings and dates spaced out over the next 2 or 3 months, just to give me a continuous stream of things to look forward to.

[gatorsmom]

I'm not so much depressed as in shock. I have been running around making myself crazy for the past 2-3 months with the stress level on HIGH and now I can relax sorta. I mean, we are moved in, the holidays are over, my dad's chemo is going well in so much as he is tolerating it very well and is relatively independent. The boys have their first day at their new school on Monday and after that I think I'll really start to relax, I mean REALLY relax. I'm just in shock that I made it through the storm, I guess.

[edurnemk]

Yes! I do feel sort of sad, distant... I don't know. I tend to get this way aroudnd the holidays.

[crl]

Well, 2011 is shaping up to be pretty stressful for us in ways that are beyond our control. So I'm feeling anxious as well. I'm hoping that when ds goes back to school this week I can get back to a routine and that will help me. I do better with routine.

Catherine