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It's worse for me. The Christmas songs are all about love and romance, the one thing I really can't receive. It's why I can't listen to pop music for an extended without feeling depressed. For me, a consumerist song is literally refreshing compared to the constant reminders of what I've missed and will seemingly never receive.
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I believe this is what people refer to as a 'trauma dump'.
No, it's not that. It's a continual persistent reminder of the one thing in life that I really really want and basically everyone regardless of class, race, etc. gets while I've just been waiting many years for it and nothing happens.
Listening to lots of pop music is functionally the same as scrolling through a lot of glamorous Instagram posts. It reminds you that everyone else has it better while you seem left in the dust.
https://www.talkspace.com/blog/trauma-dumping/
You're trauma dumping.