January begins with so much promise. Although the holidays have come and gone, there's endless messaging of "new year, new me" as we make resolutions to be healthier and happier versions of ourselves.

But what is Blue Monday and is it based on real data or science? “This has no clinical basis whatsoever,” Christine Crawford, MD, MPH, associate medical director of the National Alliance on Mental ...

January 20, 2025, is being called “Blue Monday.” Not because it’s also National Cheese Lover’s Day, which may result in increased consumption of blue cheese. And not because it happens to be the day ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Monday, which falls on the third Monday of January, has become known as the saddest day of the year. Thanks to the biting ...

Mondays can be tough – but Blue Monday apparently switches it up a notch. The third Monday of January is supposedly the ‘most depressing day of the year’, often referred to as Blue Monday. However, it ...

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The day dubbed the most depressing of 2026 is today, Monday, January 19. Known as Blue Monday for the past two decades, the third Monday of every January is meant to be the lowest we will feel for the ...

“This has no clinical basis whatsoever,” Christine Crawford, MD, MPH, associate medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness tells TODAY.com in a phone interview. In fact, the idea of ...

"Blue Monday" falls every year on the third Monday in January. It is, supposedly, the most depressing day of the year, often attributed to a cocktail of poor weather, the post-Christmas lull, ...