The third Monday in January is supposedly the gloomiest day of the year as people come down from holiday-highs and look towards the distant light of summer.
“'Blue Monday' – a calculation based on factors such as weather conditions, debt levels, time since Christmas and time since failing our new year’s resolutions – was created in 2005 to sell summer holidays,” she said in a blog post. “Since then it has become a yearly PR event and primarily a device to promote and sell things, often tenuously linked, to improving our well-being.”
Goldie said it’s vital to differentiate between feeling sad or gloomy for a day and real mental illness. So, yeah you might be reeling from the holidays and feeling a little down, but Blue Monday is not the most depressing day of the year, she said. “The idea that depression can somehow be calculated by formula is seen by many to trivialize their lived experience,” Goldie said in the blog post.
Goldie notes that the Blue Monday theory isn't completely off, because mental health is affected by the environment. She points to seasonal affective disorder, a depression that occurs around the same season each year.
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