The most wonderful time of the year with all those, merry bells that ring. The mall where you bought that leather jacket and boots have been singing Christmas carols in the airwaves and you just spent you last allowable dime from you credit card.
After the holidays though is where the depression comes in. It is because the holidays is such an overrated thing.
It's one of those times of the year where families, even the dysfunctional ones try to get along together for the sake of the season and not of each other. Well, at least they tried. Being invited to parties and being with friends who are just trying to show off their perfect lives.
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter photos only shows all the fun part of the holidays. You scroll through all of it and realize how much you don't have. You may also laugh at how silly your friends are, that your life may be better after all compared to theirs; or you may loath the thought how others think their lives are all that perfect and yours isn't with all the flaws, and misfortunes you've had some few months past.
After the holy season, the party dies down, and that hungover is yet to subside from your head. Everybody went back about their lives and will have to get back to work so in the next year perhaps they will have another new thing to brag about.
So why do most people get depressed after the holidays. Because they realize they are broke. That they have spent so much for all the gifts trying to impress others. Spent so much on dinners, spent on liquors and got drunk, and thought to themselves, how much they dread the going back to work in order to make some money to spend again.