Mental health
fromwww.bbc.com
6 days agoBlue Monday: Why it's a 'load of rubbish'
Blue Monday is a marketing-coined, non-scientific label that can exacerbate anxiety and harm people managing mental health.
The end of the Christmas and New Year party season may mean that the emotional tone of early January appears somewhat quiet and downbeat, perhaps in contrast to the previous social whirl of December, and therefore many may well feel correspondingly gloomy right now. However, it could be that extraverts, the personality type defined by psychologists as more outgoing and sociable, will feel particularly deprived of socializing opportunities at this more subdued time of the year,