Yes I have Anxiety. I have made reference to this in past posts. Most people who have anxiety hate Christmas. The shopping, crowds, family. These are thing that people with typical Anxiety Disorder hate. For me, Christmas is the best time of year.
Yes, some habits come to surface; making sure the tree lights are turned off every night so as not to start a fire on my artificial tree, the child who just won't stop singing in the aisle that already has 20 children in it, does make me drop and run. Really though, who doesn't? But for the most part, this is one of my calmest (mentally anyway) times of the year.
I can focus on shopping and not on impending earthquakes. Wrapping instead of fires. Chocolate instead of robbery. And with all the shopping and planning and parties who wouldn't be exhausted enough to actually sleep? I guess this means I need to be busy and have something to look forward to all the time. Or that I just need a steady flow of chocolate all year long.
