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Monday, January 21 you'll read blogs and see tv reports lamenting that it's Blue Monday, allegedly the most depressing day of the year.

But according to Dr. Dean Burnett, psychologist, professor and blogger, Blue Monday is a sham.

"This silly claim comes from a ludicrous equation that calculates 'debt', 'motivation', 'weather', 'need to take action' and other arbitrary variables that are impossible to qualify and largely incomparable," Dr. Burnett writes.

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Burnett is particularly frustrated with Dr. Cliff Arnall, the man credited with creating Blue Monday in 2005. Arnell reportedly admitted to making it all up as a promotion for a travel firm, according to an article in the Telegraph.

Burnett says the fabricated day even diminishes people who truly suffer from clinical depression, which is described as "persistent levels of sadness, helplessness, and disinterest" according to the Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Burnett isn't the only one sick of hearing about Blue Monday. Science writer Dr. Ben Goldacre has printed a few choice words of his own on the subject. Goldacre says years of research on depression have yet to find one pattern to suggest what time of year people are the most miserable.

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You can read more on the creation of "pseudoscience" of Blue Monday here.

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