Our moods ebb and flow with the season . They also deepen quite dramatically over the course of a unmarried week . These visualizations show on the dot when we can ask to be depressed , anxious , and stress .
These visualisation were put together by Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post , and he calls them theindex of misery . Using Google Trends , he aggregated five terms — depression , anxiety , pain sensation , tenseness , and weariness — to compile the two matrices , one showing our wretchedness over the form of a calendar class , the other show the weekly oscillation of despair . Ingraham interpreted higher search volume for each of the five terms as a signaling of their preponderance .
As Ingraham writes :
The searches arise in the spring and evenfall , ebb during the summer months , and drop sharply during holiday . Christmas is the least pitiful daytime of the class , with Christmas Eve and New Year ’s twenty-four hour period not far behind ( numbers for December of this class are projections found on last twelvemonth ’s build ) . A seemingly random Wednesday in late April may be the worst 24-hour interval of the year .
Over the course of instruction of a week , our moods seem to get better . Saturday is clearly the good day of the week — and we literally hurt more on Mondays . And interestingly , “ depression ” and “ stress ” showed the most day - to - day variation among the terms .
Be sure to check outthe integral articleat The Washington Post .
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