Anyone ellse feel the burnout during the Christmas period?

Yes, I haven't always been an outcast and disliked. I used to be quite popular when I was younger  Not sure what happened...

It's nice that they wanted you to go out! 

You sound the same as me. It's like our brains get full up and don't work anymore isn't it. I used to work 9-5 and they'd always want me to go out for drinks after work. I was finished after 8 hours at work, no more energy, so I used to go home. Couldn't do it anymore.

I kind of want the people interaction but it has to be on my terms. I am a socialble person but it's a double bind because i find it tiring too. It depends who I am with. If it's my own friends as opposed to my partner's it is less taxing as I generally meet them individually rather than a group. 

Yesterday while with others, it got to the stage where after about 2 hours I had run out of steam and i no longer bothered asking follow up questions or tried to start anything because I actually thought "i can't be bothered trying to think how to respond (facially or verbally) any more". It's made me realise what extra processing goes on behind the scenes.

Sounds like the right time to leave IMO.

OBJ went to the Browns. 

I left soon after I ate dessert on Christmas Day. Anxiety, more likely. 

I hate Christmas. I used to love it. After getting with my new partner, she has the huge family celebrations and I’m surrounded by her roughly 15 members of her family from 23rd til 27th and I barely know them. I am struggling so much lately. She does not understand and thinks I’m just a grinch. I just want to spend Christmas at home where I’m comfortable 

I'm the same, I'd love a group of supportive, warm, loving family and friends but I get too tired around people very quickly. When I was young I didn't, I was used to it as my parents were very sociable. But I've been alone at home for so many years now, I can't cope with socialising.

Yes that does sound draining. Luckily I only have my husband and daughter, who are very soothing. She is a teenager anyway so she goes upstairs and plays on her computer. It was chaos when she was little and running around but she's grown out of that.

Well said!!!  Elements of celebrations are good but having to accept graciously gifts that one neither needs or wants is a waste of time and energy on all accounts.

My best Christmas would be where everyone donates to a charity of their choice however much they can afford instead of buying each other presents.  I could write a book about all my thoughts about Christmas but I have stuff I gotta do and I don't think anyone would want to hear my rant despite me feeling better. :-)

They're obviously not as intellectual as you PR.  I found that in a lot of work placed where I think (in my head) that I could do the managers jobs better as they have no understanding of how to organise people based on their strengths and weaknesses.  I know it sounds full of myself but I do research a lot of subjects and people in management in the jobs I have had do not have people training or are even able to do their job effectively.

I find THC causes me to relax but increases my suspicion of people and my negativity so it's not the best for me.  Exercise worksreally well for me but I find it boring unless I'm dancing/moving to music. :-)

Haha, me too. I look forward to grabbing a hunk of the old blue and some poppy seed crackers each year, that and silverskin onions (to be eaten separately).

Headless turkeys, surely?! 

Yes. The cloudlike scent of a menopausal woman returning from the lavatory in an office setting would out scent those party goers any day.

Nope, no burn out here. I don't do Christmas. Instead I observe a nation of headless chickens for a month each year. Senselessly imparting with important funds for some toxic plastic tat to stuff inside their homes or their belly.

Keep it up personally got no issue with people who use weed I get why people use it for anxiety. But ironically it probably causes further anxiety not due to the hemp plant but due to the THC. Which is why I never found the majority of stoners very intelectually cleaver cause they'd all be like go to weed man it's pure out there compared to here. And I'm like what are you referring to as pure the THC or the plant and they looked at me puzzled like they didn't know what I was on about and I was like you realise it isn't the plant that gets you stoned it's just the THC that enhances the pant that gets you stoned rather than the plant itself. In its raw form it might as well be tea. lol

When it's Morgan's it's still gots be the dark stuff over the gold spiced rum any day I can enjoy that stuff with ice or with cola tbf 

It's got a brittish flag on the front then pink blue and white as far as I could remember can't be bought in supermarkets. I know someone who works for them basically how I got it 

Ahh the joys of having got into a fight years ago in my school nativity... smacking my head on a coat peg... and not being able to smell...

(I was definitely the best King... )