This time of year – the Thanksgiving through mid-January holiday season (because the college bowl season has become its own holiday) – is a particularly vibrant season for many of us.
Extended holiday seasons provide space to celebrate life and the loved ones with whom we live. They are dotted with parties, engagements, gift – giving, year-end bonuses, festive feasts, etc.
While Holidays can offer joy and celebration, they also produce emotions ranging from anxiety and anger to stress and depression. Many of these negative emotions are kept at bay for much of the year. The holiday season, though, knows no limits when it comes to exposing and exploiting that which we pretend doesn’t exist. I am not sure why this is so, but it’s clearly the case.
Just grab a local law enforcement official. They will tell you the crime rate skyrockets during this time of year. A psychiatrist may likely tell you that depression and anxiety are notably felt and compounded during this festive season of celebration. I bet our doctors, pharmacists and morticians – yes morticians – notice a frenetic increase in business during this time of year as well.
This reality – that our holidays, though meaningful – expose and exploit the worst and most fear filled parts of our soul – poses a problem for porn (or any) addicts.
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