{"id":304723,"date":"2026-02-18T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304723\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:07:17","slug":"is-the-relentless-bad-weather-getting-you-down-we-ask-some-wellbeing-experts-how-to-shake-off-the-winter-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304723\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the relentless bad weather getting you down? We ask some wellbeing experts how to shake off the winter blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs the weather forecast promises yet more cold, dreary weather, it\u2019s becoming increasingly hard for even the optimists among us to look on the bright side. Here are some tips that might boost your mood until the sun returns\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The constant rain can really take its toll on your mental health\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4f594ae0-183e-4c27-8aa4-dc68bbb704d8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The constant rain can really take its toll on your mental health<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I don\u2019t think anybody was even mildly surprised on hearing January 2026 was the second wettest year-opener on record, and that there are some parts of the country where rainfall was recorded every single day so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The sheer lack of respite in the form of a clear sky or a dry hour has taken the usual January blues to absolute February misery\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the weather forecast promises yet more cold, dreary weather, it\u2019s becoming increasingly hard for even the optimists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25666,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-304723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-deirdre-barry","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}