Why in the hell don't these "mental health" people prepare their clients for being alone on the holidays????:finger: Instead I get "pushed" to go be with a bunch of strangers at some charity holiday meal....Well you bastards....I am in a new town and I don't know where or if there is one!!!! And even if I did it wouldn't help to spend my "helliday" with a bunch of strangers!!!!! I'd just be one of a pack....That's worse than being alone!!!! I invited a friend over and it was all set....then the owner of a restaurant she frequents....offers her $150 under the table to work there T-day so there went that.....if I would have had the chance I would have done the same thing....and that my friends is what poverty is all about!!!! PTSD and POVERTY.....that's what it's all about!!!!!