According to the Daily Mail (no, I didn’t buy it, someone left one in the lounge at the hospice), today is the gloomiest day of the year – hell, every day this year has been gloomy – it couldn’t get much worse!
There is even a stupid formula – [W+(D-d)]TQxMxNA – what a load of crap!
Well, if you are interested this is what it means –
W = weather – rain, sleet and cloud make these January days feel so gloomy
D = debt – that mountain of festive bills is barely offset by your next pay cheque
T = time – three weeks into 2008 – just enough for monotomy to set in
Q = quit – most of us have now given up on those tricky New Year’s resolutions
M = motivation levels – generally very low at this time of year
NA = need to take action – overwhelmed by the need to do something to lift the gloom
Add to these D x 2 = dying father and depression.
The formula was devised by a psychologist who is an expert in depression and he has used it to pinpoint today as ‘Blue Monday’.
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Blue Monday
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According to the Daily Mail (no, I didn’t buy it, someone left one in the lounge at the hospice), today is the gloomiest day of the year – hell, every day this year has been gloomy – it couldn’t get much worse!
There is even a stupid formula – [W+(D-d)]TQxMxNA – what a load of crap!
Well, if you are interested this is what it means –
W = weather – rain, sleet and cloud make these January days feel so gloomy
D = debt – that mountain of festive bills is barely offset by your next pay cheque
T = time – three weeks into 2008 – just enough for monotomy to set in
Q = quit – most of us have now given up on those tricky New Year’s resolutions
M = motivation levels – generally very low at this time of year
NA = need to take action – overwhelmed by the need to do something to lift the gloom
Add to these D x 2 = dying father and depression.
The formula was devised by a psychologist who is an expert in depression and he has used it to pinpoint today as ‘Blue Monday’.
This entry was posted on Monday, 21 January, 2008 at 8:02 pm and is filed under News Comment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.