Today is the saddest day of the year. The third Monday of January is now known as coming Blue Monday: to define it for the first time Cliff Arnall, psychologist of the University of Cardiff according to whom on this precise day people will be particularly sad and depressed. The causes are many: the Christmas holidays are archived and the holidays are still far away, the wallet is lightened by gifts in a good mood, in addition we are in the middle of winter and the climate is not conducive to mood.

I ways to fight Blue Monday – if you suffer from it – are those valid for any day of the year when you feel particularly sad: staying atopen air, call the people care, take care of the green and generally don’t focus on yourself.

A surprise from the investigation InfoJobs ‘Happiness and Sadness at work’ is that according to the majority of Italians (74.7%) on Mondays, as Mondays, it’s not the worst day of the week, even, 16.1% love this day because they can still count on the charge of the weekend. Someone feels their mood change around the middle of the week, when the past weekend is far away and what is to come is still too far away (5.5%).

The chosen color is blue, because it’s associated with sadness and depression: in English, in fact, a colloquial way of saying to feel down in the dumps is “I feel blue”. The origins of this term go back to the poem The Mars denunciation of Geoffrey Chaucer who reads “with blue tears and a wounded heart” (with blue tears and a troubled heart). Also in France blue is associated with sadness: expression “Avoid the blues” expresses a feeling of melancholy.