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Do you feel like the holiday season affects your mental health at all? The only holiday that affects my mental health and causes me to descend into "deep dark depression and excessive misery" is Christmas. It's better now that I don't have to focus on celebrating this holiday, which caused me issues for several years. The issues I have with Christmas come from my childhood, and being born on Christmas Eve. Do the holidays make you feel better or worse? In what ways? Do you feel any additional pressures? Christmas has always made me feel worse, because of the fact that I was born on Christmas Eve. When I was a child I felt my birthday wasn't special. On my birthday, when I opened my birthday present/presents my siblings got to open one of their Christmas presents. As I said, it's better now that I don't celebrate Christmas as a holiday. I usually wish people a "Happy Holiday" and if the ask me why I say that instead of "Merry Christmas" I explain to them.     ![Merit Badge in Reviewing
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