5mo ago

Does anyone else get a seasonal boom around this time?

My sincerest sympathies to anyone who gets seasonal depression...but I don't get it. I actually loves the winter season. I love dressing in layers and going for morning dog walk breathing in the cold air. Doing a run in the cold with the air slicing through my lungs is the best. Slow cooker meals and soups. Staying indoors under thick covers with warm coffee and tea. Holiday decorations and movies/my music. God I love this time of year and I swear my mental health improves a whole grade level.

Anyone else on this site feel the same???

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I live in a tropical Australian state so I get summer depression because it's FUCKING HOT AND HUMID MATE.
Also my summer last like 9 months
I hate this country
- Move to Tas before climate change gets ya
  
  I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Tasmania!
- If you come to Perth it's hotter but less humid. Just had our first back to back 40+ days this summer

No offense to you personally, but I feel like some people are oblivious and don't understand that the holiday season is built on the backs of overworked people. I don't even work retail anymore, but I see their pain.
Me personally:
I can't have a dog because I don't want to force it to live in my small apartment
I hate being cold all the time
I don't like that it gets dark so early
I don't have the luxury of staying indoors, I have to go out in it every day
Everyone's in a hurry with short fuses and terrible driving
When I worked retail you were subjected to holiday music all day, every day and it got very old
I'm genuinely not trying to project these onto you or reduce your seasonal joy, just giving my perspective...

If this wasn't the absolute fucking worst time of the year at work for me, I would be with you. Unfortunately, I'm working 10-14 hour days and I only get Christmas day and New Year's day off aside from my normal weekend.

Yeah, summers are the worst for me mentally. Spring and fall are beautiful, winter is cozy, but summer is just hot and miserable. Everything burns and I am always wet. Hate that shit.

i fucking love a warm coffee during this season it makes my life 200% better dont need to worry about sunscreen as much all other seasons suck glory to the ice gods

Only when it snows enough to actually be bright outside. The grey drearyness really hits my depression hard. Vitamin d needs to kick in too. Then I'm alright.
- I think my eyes are overly sensitive or something because overcast days legit cheer me up, feels like I finally have full use of my face when the sun isn't smothering it all day.
  Bright snowy days are absolutely wonderful though for sure.

I think I get this AND SAD...
Like, I love the winter and wearing comfy sweaters and drinking hot cocoa and stuff, but I still get depressive. Lmao.

Not this time of year because Australia upside down etc. But I do like late Autumn and Winter. Wearing jackets and sweaters. Cooking hot roast meals. Not worrying about dying in a cataclysmic bush fire. Heavy duvets/doonas.

My tolerance for cold is way higher than heat and humidity, so I am with you, it's always struck me as easier to manage cold with layers and modes of AC, when it's hot out I am just fucked without any AC.

Yeah. It was 34c here today and I long for Scottish winters right now.

oh so it wasn't just me? Winter make me feel good in my little head, and now it makes me feel extra good with estrogen!

Yes!! Totally the same. I effing love winter.

Same. It's not winter in the southern hemisphere and I hate that. I don't want to be hot

I get horrible seasonal depression, but for some reason there's usually a hole in it somewhere in late December or early January, right when it should be the worst, and instead I'm cool.
- Late Jan and Feb are always harsher anyway

Come to the pnw and see about it lol just constant drizzle
- my dream
- I fuckin wish, man. We got dumped on in early November and then nothing for like three weeks straight. It's been sunny every day for the past week! Disgusting! How am I supposed to go skiing or kayaking if there's no goddamn precipitation!?
  Mercifully it looks like our long bright regional nightmare is finally coming to an end.
- as if thats a bad thing
- I've spent my entire life here and the constant drizzle winter is exactly the damn way I like it

I get sadder when it's gray outside, thankfully nowadays in portugal even winters get pretty sunny, it's sunny right now but cold

I used to love the winter season, but separation from family and friends makes me notice how quiet it is now compared to past years. Also the cold fucks up my hands.
I do appreciate being able to go outside without being harassed by insects though

I hate hot weather, my base feeling is loving the fall and winter. I love the idea of fall and winter, I love layering and getting in holiday meals. But even with everything I love about winter, such as everything you listed, I'm super depressed in the winter time. I think it's really just a brain thing yk?

Yeah, I feel the same way. I feel like trapped during summer, because it's just too warm. Everyone else seems to love which makes me feel like the odd one out.
Winter is just so nice. The air is cold and crisp so you feel that you're breathing. You don't get sunburns and so much less sweat. Bicycle tours are much nicer (except for even more cars and their pollution). I actually get good sleep, because you can actually turn the room cold instead of just sweating during the night.

I think I just don't like all the changes in temperature in winter. On a warm summer day, I'm just warm all the time, I can get used to that as long as it's not extreme heat. In winter once I adjust to the cold outside, I have to get into a full train with electric heating. Then out in the cold again, then warm office.
Annoying AF, abolish heating in public spaces, just wear jacket, scarf, hat all the time and carry a blanket everywhere. Or have cold rail cars so I dont have to peel myself like an onion. Only the workers need heat, screw customers.
I'll reserve the right to change my oppinion when it's summer tho.

A little. I have plenty of winter childhood memories, so I often get a little nostalgic when the weather turns cold. I remember one time during one of the winters of my mid-teens when I went to buy a comic I'd waited years to be released. I walked into town and back to save on bus fare then spent the rest of the afternoon reading in bed. That memory stuck with me for how cozy it felt.

yea I never get sick in winter. Might be a POC thing who knows, the sun def warms me up more cause of it

I practically hibernate in the winter lmao. I physically lack the energy to do things and it gets dark so early that it feels like the day's over as soon as it began.
I have a full spectrum lamp, which helps, but it's more like I go from 2/10 to 4/10 (which is still a significant improvement) than a full solution.
Also I love swimming more than anything and swimming weather is still half a year away
- swimming weather is still half a year away
  habibi! Come to Iceland

For a stint. I like the way the sun hangs in the winter, for the few hours it's up. Plus I've worked jobs where the hours reduced around the holidays, so I'm kinda Pavlovian conditioned.