This is going to be a very crappy Christmas

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I have nothing to open this Christmas morning. I'm too stressed to do shopping for gifts this year and so is my family, but I was planning on getting myself some DVD box sets to put by for Christmas so it'll bring some joy, but all the box sets I'm planning on buying this year don't seem to be released on DVD. I've looked online but no luck. I have nothing to look forward to for Christmas.

I don't have Netflix or any of that s**t. DVDs are much better to own and to gift yourself or others with. Most new movies and seasonal box sets get released around Christmas time so people can buy them for the holidays. But this year the new box sets and movies I want just don't seem to be released.

Plus my boyfriend is working this Christmas and I can't get to see anyone without his car, so this will be the first time I'll be alone. It would be OK if I had some presents to open.

It's not fair.

I'm sorry to hear that, Joe.

Could you go stay with your dad for Christmas, or at least visit? I'm sure he'll be feeling lonely too.

I wish I could help you with the DVD collections. Do you mind saying which you're looking for?

I'd love to send you a gift.

I'm working late Christmas Eve so it will be a bit hard to get to his, and he'll probably be drunk that night. The rest of my family aren't doing Christmas this year, which I can understand, which was why I wanted to buy some gifts for myself. I haven't even got anything for my boyfriend yet, as he's not long had his birthday.

So many disappointments I keep getting lately. Another thing that is making me depressed is that one of my good friends from work wants another job and move away with his young family within the next couple of years. It will be a huge loss because work won't be the same without him there and I was hoping he'd step up to be the supervisor when the current supervisor finally retires (he should have retired years ago).

I don't see the point in living any more. I have nothing to look forward to. I feel like an elderly woman with no hope for the future.

Thanks for your thought but no, I wasn't hinting for anyone here to help me out, I was just venting. Maybe I'll have a look online and treat myself to a few things. I don't like going online much but I can't face the shops. It seems this year people are going mad because they think there's not going to be enough gifts in the stores to go around. There will be but you can't cure the herd mentality.

You've had a s**t time Joe. You'll miss your mum anyway regardless of whether you got presents or if your fella was at home with you.

You're doing right to treat yourself to a few dvds. Get yourself some chocolates or something and get cosy in front of the telly.

Once Christmas and New year is out of the way people might start feeling a bit more positive (including yourself). Perhaps then you could plan for a bit of a get together or some time out with your boyfriend.

All the best.

It does seem that way.

I'm glad you're going to look online for some cheer-me-up gifts. Another idea is to rummage through your stuff and find some favourite music, movies, books, photos, mementos -- whatever -- that you can put aside to enjoy on Christmas. Maybe some nice bath stuff if you have any, get your most comfy pyjamas ready, or even plan ahead to make yourself a nice meal.

First Christmases suck. You will get through it though. Does your family know how miserable you're feeling?

Sweet Pea hugs. If you lived in Canada, I'd invite you to spend Christmas with my family.

It's strange how everyone's different. I think you should really cherish all the wonderful times over the years that you have spent with your mother and your family at special times such as Christmas.

I'm so sorry for you that you are feeling so s**t Joe and I really can't imagine what you are going through as for me I'm the complete opposite to you in a sense that I'm happy to be on my own.

I really do hope that next year brings you at least some respite from your feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Next year will just be the 8th variant or something. So that's all life is now, just lockdown and restrictions and fear and uncertainty. That's all we're living for. What's the point?

All my life Christmas has always been special and I've always had a full house and gifts and happiness. Yes it's lovely memories but now I just feel sad. I'm not used to having dull Christmases. It's going to be so sad. Maybe my boyfriend will play monopoly or cards against humanity with me when he comes home from work. Maybe we'll arrange something. Maybe we'll get visitors.

I can't even use the internet properly because the WiFi keeps disconnecting every few minutes, so whenever I video call people it just breaks up, so I have to phone instead. I can't face phoning the internet provider to sort it out. I'm not being racist or anything but usually the people from those internet call centres are foreign and really hard to hear or understand, and you're usually on the phone for ages, sometimes a couple of hours, sorting it out. Technology is something the government is forcing us all to become slaves to, but it isn't even that reliable.

Yeah.

A very sick mother who is usually quite upset/down around this time of year, for good reason; it's one of those things that makes you feel powerless and sometimes hopeless when you can't bring back the things that'd make her happy. The only dude I could really talk about some stuff to is dead, as he saw the same darkness and he was there when I first broke. I don't like my sister. My father can f**k off to hell because I do still hate sometimes, and I hope he is there. I messed up the one recent [for me] friendship I had, though to be fair I broke down again and she'd understand that one, but it wouldn't make anything feel better; I hope she has a good one.

I've got a lot of cheap whiskey, as poor coping mechanisms tend to help me the best, at least in the short-term.

I'll donate to kids' Christmas charities. I don't care about gifts, but maybe they will.

Yep. I really loved my 3-speed bicycle when I was 9.

I will never have a Christmas present again...

I accept this and buy my own