Why do we get the birthday blues?

Many of us struggle with feelings of sadness on our birthdays every year – here, we unpack the psychology behind the phenomenon

Why do we get the birthday blues?
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On May 31, I turned 27. Messages poured in, cards arrived: yet despite all of this, I found myself in floods of tears. 

I’m not alone in indulging in a massive cry on my birthday. The phenomenon of the “birthday blues” affects, on average, 83 per cent of people, with many psychologists viewing birthdays as “temporalhellip;

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