Analysis: some people find January hard but Blue Monday is an unhelpful piece of pseudoscientific nonsense
If you think Blue Monday is real, think again. The “most depressing day of the year” — supposedly every third Monday in January — is a pseudoscientific construct, that originated with a travel agency as an attempt to boost holiday sales. Although it pops up every year, there is no scientific basis for it.
The whole concept of Blue Monday is flawed, says Dr. Matt Wall, cognitive neuroscientist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London. “There have been no serious studies which have ever identified anything…