Posted by muffled on December 7, 2005, at 20:23:59
In reply to Not a Scrooge, I'm Depressed, can't they get it?, posted by Poet on December 7, 2005, at 10:15:53
> Now hanging above my desk is a sign saying Please Don't Secret Santa me. It's in a nice font with clip art of a figure holding a do not enter sign. >
> That's when I put the sign up. Things like secret gift exchanges cause me anxiety. Crying in the store anxiety. I don't bake. I can't just run home and whip up a batch of cookies. I could buy candy, but don't know what kind and I'll stand in the candy aisle talking out loud, crying and looking like a crazy person. I shouldn't have to go to pdoc for more meds to be able buy a Secret Santa gift, but I would have to.
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> Too much anxiety. It's not a simple fun thing to me. I think I do everything wrong and that includes buying gifts, even small ones.
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Pray my sign works. I wish it could say. I need to be left completely alone. Please.
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>((POET))
Sorry to hear how ahrd this is for you. I have a similiar problem in some ways. What I have done in the past is
1. I liked the sign up sheet idea, could you suggest that or send a letter regarding it or something?
2. When you get your gift, take THAT gift and give it to whoever you were supposed to get a gift for. Just pass it on.
3. Have someone help you by buying AND wrapping a gift for you to take, you would never even know what it was.
And as for the gift you recieve, give it to a street person or charity, again keep it wrapped, don't open it. You can even tell the givee thats what you did. Give 'em some good line about it.
Thats things I have done.
Muffled
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