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Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Hi there SANE Forums Community,

This fortnight we invite you to join in a discussion about strategies for coping during the holiday season. As we near the end of what has a been a particularly difficult year, many of us will will be looking forward to festive celebrations and rejoicing in farewelling 2021. There will also be many of us for whom the holiday season may be a particularly trying time, stirring up emotions such as loneliness and isolation, grief and sadness.

With many support services closed for the holidays, this makes accessing support tricky, which is why our next Topic Tuesday will be dedicated to a discussion on strategies for coping during the silly season. We'll be joined by a SANE counsellor who will be sharing their tips for coping with all the difficulties that may arise for members of the forums during this period.

We all bring our own experience with us to the holiday season, so we will look forward to hearing from the community about your experiences and strategies for coping with some of the obstacles during the Christmas and New Years period.

Join us in exploring strategies around:

  • Isolation
  • Navigating family tensions
  • Grief and bereavement
  • Service closures
  • Where to seek help

Please join the discussion here on Tuesday the 21st of December 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm AEDT to follow this conversation.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Thank you

In response to: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Hey @Lani, I'm so sorry for your loss. Does your older grandchild know your mum? Can you share a story about your mum to them? I'm sure you can tell them in simple words if they ask you why you're sad that you miss her.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Hey @Lani
I hope you find some solace. I do hope seeing your grand kids helps too.
I bet they love you to bits as well 🙂
Grandparents are awesome

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Hi @Judi9877 , welcome to the discussion, I'm glad you could join us! I can relate to that struggle. The expectation that we must always be joyous and happy is really tough, especially now as I have learnt how important it is to honour and express my emotions/feelings, rather than fake them or keep them buried, as a way of coping. It makes it harder to be around others during this period for sure, I don't want to bum people out!

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

@Lani if you are concerned about the meds then maybe check back in with your perscribing doctor.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

@BPDSurvivor a bit of slow, social accountability is a great idea. It can be so easy to hide away but signing ourselves up for events, albiet even online ones in light of covid, is a great way to ensure that we're touching base with people and alleviating some of that loneliness we might be feeling.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

@BPDSurvivor
Hope you are well

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

Hi @Former-Member and others.
I'm okay with being alone as I'm a twin and am used to having the instant playmate around me when growing up as she was my only sibling. In some ways, I find that being alone allows me to do my own things like writing and knitting and listening to my own music that my housemate doesn't like.

On Christmas Day, I'll be spending most of the afternoon alone and I'm actually looking forward to it as I'm getting wool for Christmas as a present to myself and I plan on starting my own jumper. I'll be able to focus on it and have fun listening to Christmas music on my iPhone as well. I'll also check in on the Sane forums as well like I've often done in the past.

Judi9877☺️🎄

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

@Lani , please don't think you always need to be 'happy'. Happiness all the time is a myth. It is not possible.

Grief is a natural process. Allow yourself to grieve. It doesn't make you a 'bad' or 'unworthy' person just because you are grieving.

Hugs,

BPDSurvivor

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Strategies for coping during the holiday season // Tuesday 21st December, 7:00- 8:30PM AEDT

They don’t remember her. My son wasn’t really close to mum so therefore he didn’t take his children there much
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