00:00 I think we all do get affected in January because, I don't know, it seems such a long
00:07 month. You get paid early in December for Christmas and then it seems such a long period
00:14 before you get money again in January. So, I don't think the only way, get out, have
00:22 a walk around, try and find things to do. It's the best thing I can suggest anyway.
00:29 Once the festive cheer of Christmas, the combination of shorter days and chilly, damp weather can
00:35 compound a feeling of gloom as we approach the so-called most depressing day of the year.
00:41 Next Monday has been proclaimed by a UK travel company Sky Travel as the year's most dismal.
00:48 Initially presented in a 2005 press release by the company, they claim to have devised
00:53 an equation to pinpoint this date, factoring in weather conditions pertinent only to the
00:58 Northern Hemisphere. Despite their assertion, some dismiss this concept as pseudoscience.
01:05 But to be fair, with the dark days and freezing weather, you could be forgiven for feeling
01:10 a bit down. Here's more from people around the country discussing how they cheer themselves
01:16 up. Well, you just try and lift your spirits in any way you can, I suppose. I just try
01:21 to do the best that I can, really. I'm beating the January blows next Monday because I'm
01:27 going to the Caribbean for three weeks. Simple as that.
01:33 My tip, and I do it every day, especially at this time of year, I check the sunset times
01:38 and you can literally see that every day you get a minute more daylight and that actually
01:42 really sustains me. I know it's sad, but true.
01:45 I quite like January actually, and all of a sudden I feel Christmassy at last. As soon
01:50 as it starts snowing, I love the snow. I don't like the cold, but I love it when it snows
01:55 and I quite like January because I actually feel like I'm one of these people that like
02:01 to change their life, try new things, albeit for six weeks before I run out of enthusiasm.
02:07 I don't know what it is. I think maybe because we know that it's coming up, maybe psychologically
02:12 you make yourself worse because you know it's happening. I don't know. I just find it just
02:18 a bleak... Everybody looks miserable and I don't know. If it snowed, it'd be something
02:23 to look forward to. It doesn't even do that. It's just cold.
02:26 I mean, if anybody's really depressed, they should watch a Marx Brothers film or Laurel
02:32 and Hardy or a bit of Tim Vine on TV. It'll cheer you up. No matter how bad things are,
02:44 there's always something that can get you out of that.
02:49 I read a lot, so I suppose I find reading quite relaxing.
02:53 TV's my best mate. You like your TV.
02:55 Just watch some series.
02:56 Yeah. Well, TV's company as well, as you normally know, for people who are alone. I think it
03:02 fills time, doesn't it?
03:03 Yeah, it's my best mate.
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