here's what you need to know about the most depressing day of the year
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There are two ways looking at January.
For the 'glass half-full' people out there, it's a time of fresh resolve, embarking on new endeavours and optimistic re-evaluation.
For the rest of us, it's just layer upon layer of misery.
Our bodies feel the strain of December's booze and chocolate diet , tumbleweeds blow through our bank accounts and there's ages ago till it's light again in the mornings and our vitamin D levels can regenerate.
To add to these stale and disappointing layers is another - the most depressing day of the year.
And it's coming soon.
The previous month may be home to the day you're most likely to be dumped ( December 11 , in case you were wondering), but January contains the most depressing day of the year.
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Unsurprisingly, it's a Monday.
The official date for your diary is apparently Monday 16 January.
Book it off work, grab your duvet and hunker down with uplifting Disney classics and a tub of Ben & Jerry's.
So what is it?
Admittedly there's no strict science behind this discovery - although Blue Monday is acknowledged every year.
Instead, what we do have (according to the Metro ) is the word of life coach and happiness consultant, Cliff Arnall.
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Cliff has published a formula stating how factors such as the weather, debt, the amount of time elapsed since Christmas AND since we failed at our New Year's Resolutions as well a general feelings of low motivation are all contributors to feelings of sadness and hopelessness.
Like we say, it may be a day cry quietly into a tub of something with a high sugar and fat content .