Hey Pandas, What Gives You Holiday Anxiety? (Closed)

Nothing at all! I love the Holiday Season! The food, the tree, the food, the snow, the food, the lights, the food and the films of the holiday season. We don't give each other gifts, we make donations instead. And when the holiday season is over, I have the blues, I'm sad. But hey, it’s coming back next year! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Lack of money, inability to make money (am disabled), it's a whole year anxiety but gets worse around holidays.
For this year specifically, my own Christmas gift, I always choose what people will gift me but for this year all I want is out of budget. Also my partner's gift, I had a nice idea but s**t happened that left me traumatized and I'm currently not able to do anything besides stare into the wall and play simple games (even more complex games I'm struggling with) which is hurting me a lot cause I hate not doing anything and also can no longer make that gift but I also don't wanna drop the idea.

The Reason for the Season being totally lost in a sea of consumerism.

I personally don't like how my little siblings act like morons near things such as Christmas because I KNOW they're gonna cry without presents. also I don't like the 4th of July due to the fact we go to one of my extended family member's farm and light the fireworks, but I have pyromaniac cousins who make A PILE OF BURNING FIREWORKS NEAR GRASS. making me think that it'l catch, I've also almost gotten shot by a tank firework... not as bad as my dad had once. to top it all off for 90% of the holidays we go to my great uncle's house. not so bad right? WRONG! the house may be big but MAN is it unfinished. there's a room that's just beams. the place also gets attacked by trash pandas ( racoons ). I have severe anxiety about this stuff.

The unwritten, unavoidable law that it has to be going to be the most wonderful, best holiday ever!!!

the pressure of finding the perfect gifts, the challenge of balancing family expectations, or perhaps the stress of hosting events.

ALL OF THAT👆

Financial stress due to buying gifts and groceries for the holiday season.
Not being enough

I lost way too many people around the holidays. My friend xmas eve, my grandma (I was talking care of her, end-stage cancer) dec 29th, my mom (also took care of her til she was hospitalized, end-stage cancer, could've passed at home but we were living at my sister's and she didn't want a hospital bed in her living room because "it's tacky!) Jan 2nd, my friend Jan 3rd. I'm a wreck til mid January. But because I can't let it affect my family or ruin it for my kid, I have to keep it all bottled up inside. And then there's my inlaws constantly belittling and fighting with my husband but xmas day we have to pretend everything is perfect and trade cheesy gifts that will never get used. It's just so much stress and anxiety.

Sending Christmas cards. I have stopped sending them and have found I can live with guilt easier than the anxiety.
Merry Christmas everyone!

Holiday performances
I have like 10 this month (*incoherent screaming*)

I never get anxious lol, this year i have to study for a exam rewrite in January tho

Peasach
SO MUCH CLEANING and I only really have spring break to get it done, unless Peasach is the first week of spring break.

the Holidays is what gives me holaday anxiety and shopping this time of the year so i just amazon everybody

I'm retail management. I have anxiety issues with being in crowded spaces. this is not ideal.

I’m so overwhelmed. I’m not ready and can’t seem to get into the spirit of the thing. I’ll be working long hours through the holidays. I’m a widowed mum of two adult kids with disabilities and I also have my own disabilities. It all feels too hard. I can’t afford it and I just don’t want to deal with it this year. I miss my mum who I lost a few years after my husband and I tend to feel so alone at this time of year.

Well, because my brain is messed up, eating food makes me anxious so there's that whole mess, and on top of that I have to handle all the people and the noise and the family and I do not like it

Family gatherings. Especially with people I swear I’ve never met before in my entire life. Like, who’s this? Last time you saw me was when I was born? Yeah, okay.

My BF has a perfect pitch. Also, flashy and blinky things make him overwhelmed. On top of that, he's from an artistic family and Kitch makes him uncomfortable in general. Every time he has to go out during the holiday season it's torture for him.
That makes me anxious as well because we have to reorganize our lives in such a way that he can avoid going to "christmasy" places as much as possible.

Hoping people don't go to my door and start singing(Christmas) or asking for candy(Halloween).

for winter holidays? (my family celebrates Christmas) probably thinking of a wish list and getting it to people on time, and then buying people gifts.
And getting late work done before the semester ends.