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???
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…
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.
Yes!! Totally the same. I effing love winter.
Yeah. It was 34c here today and I long for Scottish winters right now.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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
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 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
If you come to Perth it’s hotter but less humid. Just had our first back to back 40+ days this summer
Move to Tas before climate change gets ya
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Tasmania!
Tasmania: if the Rural US PNW was also bogan.
I am now suddenly interested in visiting Tasmania
My one crank position is Tasmania should be stripped of statehood back to territory status. Lose 10 senators etc.
Though I’d settle for upgrading ACT and NT to state hood and giving them 12 senators too.
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.
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.
