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  On the year’s most miserable da MENTAL HEALTH Beyond Blue Monday y (allegedly), Heather Beach says it’s not surprising we’re so exhausted, yet embracing realistic optimism might just take the edge off. Sometimes a term just captures the imagination – whether scientifically it has validity or not. In fact, let’s face it, that happens a lot. One term is ‘Blue Monday ’, supposedly the third Monday of January, manufactured by Sky Travel as the most miserable day of the year and therefore a motivator for people to book a holiday, underpinned by ‘research’, which has since been debunked. The phrase captured the imagination of those of us in the Northern Hemisphere who, once the ‘new year, new me’ sparkle has worn off, are faced with wet, cold weather, no money post-Christmas, and nothing to look forward to – ok. that is a little nihilistic but you get the picture). The Samaritans since took hold of the term and turned it into ‘ Brew Mon day ‘ a positive way of looking at it – let’s ta...