Blue Monday

The saddest day of the year?

Rahman Mohamed

This week is the third week of 2024. It began with ‘Blue Monday’. In 2005 Sky Travel, a UK company, labelled the third Monday of the year as the saddest day of the year. There’s no science behind it but it might have some validity it the Northern hemisphere and being at the start of year.

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Snow Can Make Some SAD

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).  Moods that shift with the season and sun; how to recognize it and manage it

Rahman Mohamed

It was winter and Toronto was cold; so the professional forecasters decided to finally speak. But CBC reported they didn’t agree; Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia said Spring would spring but Ontario’s Wiarton Willie said “6 more weeks of winter”.  America’s most famous underground predictor, Punxsutawney Phil from Pennsylvania decided to agree with Willie.  So people across the country were wondering, “Should we smile wide, hoping for an early spring, or should we be prepared for 6 more weeks of snow?”

But did you know there are people who are depressed when spring starts and some who don’t smile whenever there’s snow? Continue reading