"My personal technique for coping with the holiday is to remind myself that even though I had the misfortune to be born and have spent this burden of sentience mostly in suffering and sorrow, there is nothing I can do that will prevent me from dying, and, actually, quite a few things that will help hurry it along. No matter how bad things are, I remind myself, they will eventually end. And then I don't feel so bad! Oddly, this trick does not work for Christmas, which seems to go on FOREVER, but it has definitely helped me make it through many a November."