Talk About 'Blue Monday'

Unless you're a Giants fan, it's likely you woke up this morning feeling a bit more than the usual Monday blahs. The third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year, says a Cardiff University researcher. He bases his annual predictions on weather, holiday debt, and broken New Year's resolutions, Time's Bill Tancer notes. But Tancer has a better formula.

By tracking online searches about depression, Tancer puts the "true nadir of depression" in mid-November, just ahead of Thanksgiving. And he notes a similar spike in searches for antidepressant drugs a few weeks earlier. "It's almost as if people anticipate their holiday depression and start shopping early for their drug of choice," he writes. (More depression stories.)