Why is Blue Monday regarded as the year's most gloomy day?

 

Monday’s might be stressful — but Blue Monday supposedly kicks it up a level.

Known as Blue Monday, the third Monday of January is said to be the "most depressing day of the year."

The idea, which originated from a press statement from a UK travel agency to basically sell more vacations, asserted that Christmas was officially gloomy because of the colder winter evenings and the financial collapse.

Since its inception, it has been incorporated into national marketing campaigns urging consumers to indulge on what is regarded as the "saddest day of the year."

When is Blue Monday 2024?

The third Monday of the year is designated as Blue Monday.

It falls on January 15, 2022, this year.

Where did it come from?

Blue Monday is the most melancholy day of the year, according to psychotherapist and life coach Cliff Arnall, who came up with the title.

The concept was revealed in a 2005 news release for Sky Travel, a now-defunct UK travel agency that claimed to have determined the date using an equation. Arnall, a tutor at Cardiff University's Centre for Lifelong Learning, purportedly wrote the initial release.

Originally, it used as a marketing tool to promote and encourage individuals to make travel reservations.

What is meant by Blue Monday?

The Blue Monday theory is reportedly based on environmental conditions that occur after Christmas, however it has not been proven scientifically.

It's been attributed to the unfavorable weather, longer nights, and the financial collapse that started after December's celebrations.

Since then, academics have dismissed the concept as "nonsense."

Cardiff University's division of psychological medicine and clinical neurosciences tutor Dr. Dean Burnett asserts that "there are so many reasons to believe [the Blue Monday equation is] nonsense."

"First off, the equation was created by a travel agency, who then looked about for a psychologist to sign off on it in order to give it the appearance of credibility. It wasn't the product of some respectable lab's psychological research. It blends elements that cannot be quantitatively blended together.

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