Not Feeling So Jolly This Holiday Season? You’re Not Alone

Dr. Leslie Carr writes:

One of the problems that I have with this season, to be blunt, is the pressure that it puts on many people to pretend like they woke up with holly between their ears. Sometimes life is hard, for all of us – but for those of us who happen to be suffering during the month of December, there seems to be a manic pressure to pretend like it’s not happening.

Meanwhile, to suffer while the world bellows “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” usually only makes a person feel worse (more alienated, and more discordant with one’s surroundings), so there’s a one-two punch: The festiveness of the holidays makes us feel ironically sadder than we already do, and now we’re feeling pressured to pretend like it’s not happening. It’s all so unfortunate and unnecessary.

Go to the source for more: Not Feeling So Jolly This Holiday Season? You’re Not Alone.