No blue Monday, color the day yourself
Deprime Monday: Monday of the last full week of January. In 2005 ‘Blue Monday’ was approved. Fantasy of the travel industry or not, you can color the world more beautiful for the use of others. With art, sports or baking cakes.
This year, Blue Monday falls on Monday, January 17. It’s the day most people feel sad and might feel. Are you nodding ‘yes’ or are you concerned about someone? Here’s what you can do to help get someone else through these dark day(s).
Baking cakes against loneliness (starts Sunday 16 January)
Follow the online baking workshop on Sunday 16 January and make something delicious. You can also do this independently. On Monday 17 January you bring your baking to a care location in your own neighbourhood. You get the location all the way through you sign up. You can do this via the website of Serve the city.
Sport
Run along with the Blue Monday Run. With the money you collect you support young people with problems and prevention. More information can be found at Amsterdam Mentally Healthy.
art helps
Experience the healing power of art with the Art Therapy Walk, in De Hallen in Amsterdam West. You can have a Blue Monday conversation with an artist. There are also ‘One Minutes’ about mental health and other artists who shed light on how we feel.
Light artwork in Southeast
A digital light artwork has been created around the theme of ‘mental well-being’: Flower of people. On a facade on Bijlmerplein, three dancing silhouettes emerge from an undulating sea of bright spots, which slowly crumble and merge into a new silhouette. It can be seen from January 19 to February 9. Take a moment now to take a look. More information can be found at [email protected]
About Blue Monday
On Blue Monday, people feel extra depressed because, for example, the Christmas holidays are over, good intentions are in tatters and it is light late and dark early. Not the British psychologist Cliff Carnall would have come up with the formula, but a PR agency, commissioned by a travel company. Their ‘solution’ for all the gloom: book a nice summer holiday, preferably expensive and far away, and say happy again about the anticipation.
Need psychological help?
The demand for help is increasing. Thrive Amsterdam Mentally Healthy companies Amsterdammers and organizations together. It is part of an international network of cities. to thrive blossom.