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18th January 2021
03:17pm GMT

The concept also fails to recognise that feeling sh*t can strike at any time.
Journalist Bryony Gordon hit the nail on the head in an Instagram post about Blue Monday a few years back.
She shared her own experience of dealing with depression and highlighted that it doesn't just come along in January.
"According to professors of fuckwittery at the University of Trying to Sell You Stuff, today is the most depressing of the year, owing to its peak Januaryness. Or something. Well tell that to me last JULY when I couldn’t get out of bed for, ooh, what seemed like forever. "This shit undermines a serious mental illness. You can be depressed at any time of the year. "And if you are depressed right now, know that I’m spurring you on, letting you know that THIS is the kind of smile that can await you on the other side. You’ve got this, even if you think you haven’t."Even mental health charities are debunking the idea. Laura Peters of Rethink Mental Illness has said that the science "doesn't add up". "There’s no such thing as the most depressing day of the year," she said. "It was invented as a marketing ploy to sell holidays, and people live with depression all year round." So, yeah. In short, Blue Monday is a cop-out. It's a cop-out for mental health in the same way that Valentine's Day is a cop-out for love; it doesn't get to the root of the issue and is designed to give the media something to talk about and companies a reason to market stuff at you. Look out for yourself and others today and every other day and don't be told how to feel any time of the year.
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