According to Dr Cliff Arnall, a psychologist with a taste for self-publicity-taking in six factors - weather, debt, time since Christmas, time until pay day, low motivation and failure to keep new year resolutions - has been wheeled out for the past few years to calculate the most depressing day of the year. And since today is that day, wipe that smile off your face and remove that spring from your step.
"I think the research was meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek," says Mike Cobb, a spokesperson for Samaritans (he's right; Arnall was commissioned by a travel company which suggested, to much surprise, that taking holidays is a good way to alleviate depression). To help people in the UK deal with this day, a website has been created, Beat Blue Monday.
But isn't it a great idea to think that you can blame a shitty day not on the fact that you are just not doing well in your life-inno its just you-bas on the fact that its OFFICIALLY a shite day for everyone in the WORLD!!!!!
WELL...
ReplyDeleteThat explains EVERYTHING!