It's perfectly fine to talk about dark issues at the holidays, you know?

If you read the last couple of things I wrote, you'd probably be like "WHOA! That dude is DEPRESSED!" In reality, I'm not. My life is definitely a lot better than it was in December of 2013 (detailed a little bit here) and I'm mostly content. But I do think the holidays are an interesting psychological time: there's so much stuff that goes with it in te…