Tuesday Monday of January has won the name “Blue Monday“And he is regarded by many as the most melancholy day of the year.
For some years there has been a theory around Tuesday Monday of January, which claims that this is the worst day of the year.
It is said that on this day, people are flooded with negative emotions more than any other day.
And this is because there are many who realize that they have fallen out of their program and goals and so they are sad.
Although the scientific community challenges its existence as a real phenomenon, the idea of Blue Monday remains widespread and has gained striking publicity. But why is it considered that this day causes bad feelings?
The concept of Blue Monday emerged in 2005, when psychologist Cliff Arnall published a mathematical equation that was supposed to show how the combination of parameters such as weather, financial situation, frustrations from the goals of the year and the sense of fatigue after the holidays led to his greater melancholy.
However, this “study” was later challenged, as it was based on dubious cases and did not have sufficient scientific documentation.
Despite doubts about the creation of this concept, Blue Monday highlights something important: the connection of human psyche to winter conditions and the influence that seasonal change may have at our disposal.
The sun sets earlier, the cold and the rains dominate, while the holidays and joy of the holidays have passed, leaving a gap. All of this is combined with the debt sense of the new goals of the year, causing anxiety and frustration.
The mathematical equation
Blue Monday’s theory arises from a mathematical equation, [W+(D-d)]XTQ/MXNA, born in the mind of academic Dr. Cliff Arnall, which combines factors such as weather (w), debt (D), monthly salary (D), time spent with Christmas (T) festivals, low level of mobilization (M) etc.
Blue Monday has not been scientifically proven and remains just as theory. However, it could be a World Day of Recognition and Treatment of Negative Factors that affect mental health.
The term Blue Monday was first devised in 2004 by Cliff Arnall, a psychologist and lifecoach, when he approached by the British travel company Sky Travel to find a formula to determine the most depressing day of the year.
Blue Monday then became the focus of a Sky Travel advertising campaign designed to encourage holiday bookings that, as the company used to say, “will relieve some of Blue Monday’s misery”.
However, the way Arnall came to this conclusion has been rejected by the scientific and academic community.
“Reduced winter mood is a normal response to Christmas holidays and at the end of the celebrations. But the pathology of such normal emotions in some form of ‘acute depression’, such as Blue Monday, is wrong,” said Craigjackson, a professor at Birmingham University.
“There are no reliable research evidence that Blue Monday is more depressing than any other day or even the most depressing day of the year,” he added.
What do the items show
Public Health Indicators, such as mortality, absence due to illness, psychiatric morbidity, and even deaths or suicide attempts show no increase on Tuesday Monday of January each year or about those days compared to other January days.
“The only way in which this date can be considered more depressing than others is because the big media tells people that ‘today is Blue Monday’ and so it can simply cause a self -fulfilling phenomenon. People need to know that this is not a scientific fact, “Jackson said.
Blue Monday, then, should be considered nothing more than a trick for advertising and swelling in the media, Jackson said.
Whatever the case, Blue Monday remains a reminder to pay attention to our own mental health and to recognize that psychological challenges are normal and expected, especially at that time of time.
It is an opportunity to reassess our needs and find ways to meet the challenges of everyday life with more understanding and self -care.