Happy Holidays, Everyone!
Hi readers (and writers, too!)
It’s the holiday season, and we at QueerMentalHealth.org would like to wish you happy holidays, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Solstice, Kwanzaa, Festivus, any other holiday, or just no holiday at all. This can be a stressful time of the year, as many of us have no family to go to, or are stressed and triggered by seeing family. Whatever you do, remember to take time for yourself, too, and take good care of yourself. If you don’t have family or can’t make it out to see family, make sure you have friends you can turn to, to celebrate in your own way.
Hanners Ellicott-Chatham,
Creator, QueerMentalHealth.org.
About Author
Hanners Blackthorne
I am a web developer, and the creator of QueerMentalHealth.org. I run my own IT business. For this reason I have chosen to remain anonymous, so I have chosen the pseudonym "Hanners Ellicott-Chatham", which is a character from one of my favourite web comics, Questionable Content, by Jeph Jacques. am a trans woman who lives with Bipolar Disorder.
Happy Holidays to you, too, Hanners!
Even though I have absolutely nothing invested in any of these holidays (New Year’s I like, but the rest are bleh), when everything is closed and the sun sets at 4PM and nearly all of one’s friends are out of town, it’s really easy to get sad and lonely and spiral into negi headspace. A friend of a friend of a friend already offed himself this week. The darkness descended on me after work on the 24th, but luckily I managed to get at a friend who was still in town; she came and hung out and invited me (and some other vagrant queers) into her family’s vegan dinner the next day. So that’s how we got through that, but my heart goes out to all the sad people who couldn’t reach out to anyone.