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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nuray Bulbul and Sian Baldwin

Blue Monday 2025: When is it and how to beat it

Blue Monday – dubbed the saddest day of the year – is looming.

The festivities of Christmas and New Year's Eve have come to an end and life is going back to normal. Those things, combined with returning to work, being skint from festivities and an extra long gap between paydays, mean it is no wonder some of us can feel down in the dumps.

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