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Blue Monday & fake news

According to at least one ‘expert’ 19th January is Blue Monday the most depressing day of the year (the date varies according to ‘expert’). You can read how the concept has developed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date)

It is not exactly fake news but if you take it too seriously you may wish to think again. Mondays are traditionally rather depressing and January when it’s cold and dark doesn’t help. Neither of these things however is exactly news

Blue Monday was started by an academic who now markets himself as a happiness consultant or similar. Certainly, checking my case load as a trade union officer, I note that January can be depressing (& it’s not part of my job description to make people happy anyway), but then, depending on context, so can lots of other times of the year.

This stuff is not perhaps entirely made up but neither is it actually true either. Between reality and fake is a vast grey area.

Take care out there.