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# The Most Depressing Day of the Year
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2007/01/the_most_depres/
- Published: 2007-01-22T17:07:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-22T14:57:14.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: health, psychology

[Is this why I’m having such a terrible day](https://web.archive.org/web/20071024120842/https://www.travelweekly.co.uk/blogs/2007/01/cheer-up.html)?

> January 22 is the most depressing day of the year, according to one headline-grabbing psychologist who, among other things cites fading memories of holidays as one reason for this being a particularly gloomy start to the working week.

Who is this headline-grabbing psychologist? A quick outbreak of hot, Google action [turns up this](https://web.archive.org/web/20070209015846/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23382572-details/Blue+Monday:+The+unhappiest+day+of+the+year/article.do):

> Dr Cliff Arnall, a Cardiff University psychologist, devised the formula that shows today is the most depressing.
> 
> His equation takes into account six factors: weather, debt, time since Christmas, time since failing our new year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and the feeling of a need to take action.
> 
> Taken together they pinpoint today as ‘Blue Monday’.

So now you know.