Beat Blue Monday: Simple Ways to Lift Your Spirits During the Year’s Gloomiest Day 🌧️

Once the festive cheer of Christmas the combination of shorter days and chilly, damp weather can compound a feeling of gloom as we approach the so-called "most depressing" day of the year – Blue Monday. This phrase signifies a day in January (typically the third Monday) proclaimed by a UK travel company, Sky Travel, as the year's most dismal.

Initially presented in a 2005 press release by the company, they claimed to have devised an "equation" to pinpoint this date, factoring in weather conditions pertinent only to the Northern Hemisphere. Despite their assertion, some dismiss this concept as pseudoscience. But to fair with the dark days and freezing weather you could be forgiven for felling a bit down. Here are more people from around the country discussing how they cheer themselves up.