Unhappiness emerges as a striking consequence of the self-indulgent spirit that pervades the Christmas season, revealing a deeper connection between misplaced desire and misery. Though the holiday season markets itself as "the most wonderful time of the year," filled with giving, generosity, and joy, an examination of its underlying nature exposes it instead as a "taking season," one that fosters self-focus and self-concern rather than genuine charity. This self-indulgence, defined biblically through terms like truphaō, truphē, and entruphaō, describes not merely excessive luxury but the enfeebling of mind, body, and soul, and even a kind of effeminacy, a weakening of spiritual and moral strength. The tragic fruit of this self-indulgent culture becomes evident in the statistic that suicide rates spike by an average of thirty-three percent in the week following Christmas, the largest increase of the year. This phenomenon suggests that many people, surrounded by images of laughter, jubilation, and joy in advertisements, movies, and carols, feel they do not measure up and cannot find their own happiness amid the season's manufactured cheer. Rather than a season of giving, it becomes for them a season of taking their own lives, an outcome described as unspeakably tragic. While not every suicide victim can be labeled self-indulgent, it is undeniable that such individuals were dreadfully unhappy and disturbingly depressed. This connection between misery and self-focus is illuminated by novelist Tom Robbins' observation that "unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence," since being unhappy allows a person to pay excessive attention to themselves and take themselves very seriously. This insight ties unhappiness directly to the broader pattern of self-indulgence explored throughout the message, positioning it as another victory for the adversary, who uses the season's false notions of charity, hope, and love to drive people deeper into self-obsession, whether through excessive luxury or through the self-absorption inherent in despair itself. This pattern echoes the downfall of biblical figures like Satan, Samson, and Solomon, each of whom pursued unrestrained self-indulgence only to have what mattered most stripped away, culminating in Solomon's own lament that "all is vanity and a grasping for the wind." Unhappiness, then, is not separate from the self-indulgent trap of the season but rather one of its most sorrowful manifestations, demonstrating how far mankind has spun out of balance. The call is therefore to recognize this danger, to maintain control over desires without falling into either extreme of indulgence or its counterfeit in joyless self-obsession, and to set the mind on things above rather than be ensnared in the exquisite but deadly traps that lead ultimately to sorrow and the loss of one's crown.