To find January depressing?

I hate winter, full stop. It’s cold, not enough daylight and certainly not enough sunlight, you have to put the heating on which is expensive, always needing to wear a coat, socks etc. it’s miserable. People say - no such thing as bad weather, if you wear the right clothes but that’s just wrong.

So yeah YANBU, OP

Go outside, it’s a beautiful sunny winter day. You’ll soon perk up 😄

Yes I hate the closing in of November and by the end of Jan it's light at 5pm.

Yes, I detest the dark wintry November to December spell. As soon as the mornings get light earlier I'm happier and more motivated.
Its not long till February, then Easter and into Spring walks and late night shopping without a torch .
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I work in healthcare and it’s always manic at work over Christmas and New Year. I enjoy the traditions of Christmas - deccies, food, parties, lights, the religious aspect (I am not religious) but I also LOVE January - it’s the beginning of a New Year, spring is round the corner and professionally it’s wind down time for me - it’s a chilled month.

You’re obviously not alone, people bang on about January being depressing, often the ones who spend months hyping up Christmas!
My Christmas period lasts about 2 weeks, we come home from a holiday tomorrow and I’m looking forward to getting back into a regular routine again. I quite like January for a fresh start, tend to feel quite motivated and I generally just enjoy having the house back to normal.
i don’t spend more than I can afford at Christmas which is one reason some people also hate the start of the year, because they’re broke and waiting for payday.
But no, I like things about all the months and seasons really. It IS chilly though and I do feel the cold!

The only good thing about January is Burns Night! Thank god for Rabbie giving us Scots an excuse for a party in January to cheer us all up.

Both my daughters have January birthdays so it’s full of celebrations for us! And work is quiet. But I’m more a winter person so not so bothered by the cold and dark. I do feel very broke after Xmas then double birthday, though.

March is awful. We sometimes get snow or named storms, yet I feel like you're expected to be starting to get out and about more. It often rains and is hard to dress for.

This made me think: actually I think March is my most disliked month. It is technically spring but is often still cold and wintry - whereas at least you expect that in January. And by then for me work is getting busy, whereas you can have a slower, gentler start to January.

January and February are quite hard in this part of the world. Short days, cold, wet. But the days are getting longer, and spring is on the way.

But when it comes to there June birthday you are expected to go out for food/drinks whatever forgetting you just about got a txt 🙄🙄

I don’t hate January. After the madness of Christmas, new year and then dds birthday it’s nice to have a month to just do simple things. Lots of running, lots of reading, lots of country and coastal walks and not too much madness.

Yes I realised that

February is worse. It’s not called coffin-filler month for nothing. People just give up in February

They don't call it January blues for nothing. To be honest though, I find Feb and March worse as I am fed up of winter by this point. Having things in the diary to look forward to helps and the lighter evenings help

@Uptightmumma - I could have written your post, except for the having your own business bit. Nobody really wants to celebrate my birthday, and they're usually still on their no alcohol/cake kicks.

I wish that was true. Winter is not even half way over in January.

January has the advantage of evenings slowly getting noticeably lighter, and Xmas being over (I’m not a fan). But February - ugh. By that time everyone is heartily sick of winter and February just drags on pointlessly, it’s always grey and wet, you think it’s nearly spring but it just isn’t. I don’t have a good word to say about February!

The snow part for one. I detest the bloody stuff and Winter generally.

January is okay. Last few years it’s been beautiful weather wise (compared to November and December which are often wet) and it’s a nice change of pace after Christmas.

It’s February and the first bit of March that can get in the bin as far as I’m concerned, winter has dragged on enough by that point 🤣

I actually enjoy it, probably due to several family birthdays in the month, also it's a new year, feels like new things and improvements are more possible than any other month!

I don’t particularly mind January, it is February that I dislike. I am really looking forward to the longer days by that point.

Spring Is when nature’s new year begins, really we’re still at the beginning of winter so we should still be in hibernation mode. Keep some twinkly lights up and embrace it!