Is Blue Monday a Myth?

Forget your troubles, come on get happy.

You better chase you're blues away.

Today is #bluemonday stated statistically the most #depressingday in the year in the Media.

But that is wrong! Why?

Well after some research I found out it was a PR stunt created by a travel company to sell holidays and is dismissed as #pseudoscience.

But let's explore #mentalhealthawareness and learn the origins of why Blue Monday was created

So the lie stated by media outlets is since 2005 they claim that most suicides take place on the third Monday of January. 

#januaryblues is spoken about in western popular culture-but no statistical evidence at all to back this up.

The explanation is after the holiday season people are more in debt, maybe missing family and friends or find it difficult to adjust back to work. 

The condition "#Sad" aka #seasonalaffectivedisorder is another explanation which has been proven scientifically.

SAD occurs in seasonal patterns around 40% of the year not just January.

According to the #suicide rate peaks are mainly in the spring and summer not colder weather as the media and others brainwash us to think.

However suicide and depression are not a joke or a myth though was spoken as a huge sin due to Judas betraying Jesus.

So how do I know about SAD, my personal experience is with my own Mother who suffers with SAD and it didn't help with all the bereavement she coped with before the age of 50.

Bringing me up and I dealt with all before the age of 16.

So for perspective in a space of 10 years she lost both her parents, her husband, friends, extended family and altogether 18 relatives.

In culture nowadays it is OK to talk and discuss these subjects but in the late 80s and 1990s it was still a taboo subject and in British culture we are taught "to get over it" or "nevermind" if things go wrong.

Never discussing the problems and therapists were in a few words useful as a chocolate teapot back then.

This rhetoric of ignoring depression is dangerous as many can suffer in silence.

Gladly this has changed and shaped the structural foundations of my work discussing

Grief with clients via my #hypnotherapy and #Counselling sessions

What many people need is to talk as the world can be a very lonely place.

From personal experience I can also discuss my own two attempts at suicide once when I was 18 and secondly when I was 22, which clearly never went through with.

I will do a video about these soon on youtube and on my website and explain how it helped me start my own healing journey and more.