It's that time of the year where family relationships are at the center of our emotional response to the festivities who are more about Noel than Christ's birth.
I was once told by a psychiatrist that this is the season when the rate of people seeking for help increases.
Our Suicide Helpline in Brazil claims that it is true that they receive more calls during Christmas. Not necessarily on December, 25 or 24 but during the season or January.
Preparations for Christmas has started to be done earlier and earlier and the phenomenon "Christmas Creep"* is an evidence of this fact.
Strangely enough in English there are numerous articles claiming that it is not true. Christmas death rate increase is nothing but a myth.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and also some compassion to those who don't have a supportive family.
Take care. Make cookies for Santa. You'll be the one who will eat them anyway,
*Christmas creep is a merchandising phenomenon in which merchants and retailers introduce Christmas-themed merchandise or decorations before the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, which in the United States is on the day after Thanksgiving.[1] The term was first used in the mid-1980s.
Search for help in case you are suicidal. Helpline in US.
