Warning: Next Monday Is 'Most Depressing Day of the Year'

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depressing day in western hemisphere under snow??

 

Devi Bhakta <devi_bhakta wrote: Okay, so maybe this is completely

off topic: But apparently the most

depressing day of the year has been determined to be 23 January 2006.

 

Using factors that make most of us humans sad, Dr. Cliff Arnall at

Cardiff University in Wales has devised the following formula:

 

JANUARY BLUES DAY FORMULA

 

{W + (D – d)} x TQ divided by M x NA

 

The equation is broken down into these variables:

 

W = weather

D = debt

d = monthly salary

T = time since holiday season

Q = time since failed attempt at self-improvement/quitting bad habit

M = low motivational level

NA = need to take action

 

BTW, Jan 23 is, of course, a Monday.

 

Basically it works out that the holidays were a month ago, the bills

are coming due, the New Year's resolutions died weeks ago and there

is a lot more winter with nothing to look forward to ... therefore

Jan 23 is, statistically speaking at least, the worst day of the

year.

 

Doctors say exercise and reading up on depression are ways to beat

the blues.

 

SOURCES:

 

* http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15220222

 

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4187183.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

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