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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Paul Speed

What is Blue Monday and why is it the most depressing day of the year?

Watch out for next week - for it contains the dreaded 'Blue Monday'!

The supposedly fearful day, which this year falls on January 16, has long been coined 'the most depressing of the year' - and the time we're most likely to give up on our new year resolutions (if we haven't already!).

New Order may have famously sung about it in 1983, but Blue Monday didn't become an annual 'thing' until 2005, after being conceived by life coach and happiness consultant Dr Cliff Arnall.

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