To find January depressing?

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I love December and November as we get ready for the Christmas and the new year.
I reflect about the whole year and get ready for the next year.
But once the new year starts it becomes very depressing for me
Everyone else seems to be coming back fresh and happy to office. Wondering if it's just me who find January more depressing?

Yabu - I like January
Yanbu - January is depressing

I wonder if those who are saying use it to stay at home, read, craft, relax etc aren’t at the stage of life where they have full time jobs plus young energetic kids who have the same hobbies and the same need for amusement, exercise and fresh air in January as they do in every other month of the year?

I actually quite like it. It was the most beautiful, cold, clear day today with hardly any people or cars around and I just loved the stillness of it. It was so calming.

I also don’t buy into January being the new year so no longer feel the pressure of setting goals or starting fresh. I allow myself to slow down and rest, then I feel re-energised when Spring is on the horizon. I prefer to follow nature’s timeline.

I think it’s perfectly normal and usual to feel this way, the term January Blues exists for a reason! It’s because Christmas is so hyped up and it’s at the end of the month too so no time to come down from any of it before the new year hits. Plus people put so much pressure on themselves to create resolutions and stick to them, they’re often massively unrealistic ones. When they quit a couple of weeks into January, they spiral and feel even worse.

I try to look at it positively. It’s getting lighter in the evenings day by day. It’s still cosy enough to have my fireplace fairy lights and candles lit in the evening. I enjoy reading with a hot drink in the evening lots too. Plus it’s a chance to have a fresh start, stick to some reasonable resolutions.

my birthday month! I am lucky if I get acknowledge on the day: everyone is skint, it’s cold; everyone is going dry January, vegan January, on a health kick so no one wants to celebrate the way we celebrate there’s. I normally just get vouchers cos it’s just been Christmas - which I don’t necessarily mind but it feels lazy!

i run my own business which is always horrendously busy in January but with not with money making which means after a quite December I am still skint!

it would love to right it off

I like January but am less keen on February, the “cruellest month”. First week of Jan is still Christmas, so we still have the tree and decorations up. We keep lights and greenery up to Candlemas in February, so that helps too.

It's what you make of it. It's coming around every year so why be unhappy about something you can't change? You can only change your attitude to it. Do something you enjoy every day whatever the month is

I hate January too. I'm skint, cold and the days drag on and on and on. I'm with you OP!

It’s ok to dislike things. No one is relentlessly positive about everything. I don’t spent my January moping around crying that it’s January, but I am happy to declare that I hate it and am glad when it’s over!

Hate November and December. Damp, dark, dreary.
January is great, Spring is this year. The days are getting longer. It might snow. Perfect. Good days ahead. Dark and dismal behind. What’s not to love?

Op said it was "depressing" which is more than disliking something. If I felt like that about something I'd do something about it! Life is too short just moping about it. Today I went on a lovely walk with a friend. Nothing too far. Just a chat & a walk. Back to work on Monday & it will be nice to see everyone again. I felt like the OP a couple of years ago, dreading going back to work in Jan. So I changed my job to something I genuinely love

I think it was just a turn of phrase rather than it making her clinically depressed!

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!

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

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 🤣

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

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!

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

@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.

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

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

Yes I realised that

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.

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 🙄🙄

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.