Hi team
I find this topic incredibly interesting as we are all so similar but yet vastly different. Currently we are in the thick of summer and I am not a summer person. The description of a grey damp day is something that I would happily love to have. Joe is a summer person, lays in the sun, gets out and about. However I get out more in the rain and mist. I would be keen to have a better understanding of why this is. Is it an inbuilt mechanism of the brain? Is it in relation to past memory? Is it something to do with the temperature of the body?
I truly hope you can push through this feeling as i can relate but only in response to how I feel about summer. I have a feeling this is why I am struggling currently. I would swap locations if I could.
Please look after yourselves and get on top of winter bugs.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
-
Mental Fairy
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: March 24th, 2022, 11:53 am
- Gender: Female
- Issues: Recently sleep walking increased. History of anxiety depression
- preferred pronoun: She
- Location: New Zealand
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
I'm glad the light helps, SD. And now I have "Kodachrome" running through my head. 
-
snoringdog
- Posts: 1450
- Joined: April 23rd, 2019, 5:49 pm
- Gender: male
- Issues: anxiety, depression, automatic negative thoughts, intrusive thoughts, SAD.
- preferred pronoun: "Good Boy!"
- Location: USA
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
Hello Rivergirl,
When you get tired of Kodachrome, there are a few more in the Paul Simon link I posted a few days ago I'm sure
Mental Fairy - I do appreciate rain fog and mist, but sometimes that weather seems like a dark heavy blanket on my mood. Maybe associated atmospheric pressure and pollen counts too.
When the days get shorter, I try to leave a small light on in rooms. I hate stumbling around in the dark in the late afternoon. Evening just seems to come too soon.
When you get tired of Kodachrome, there are a few more in the Paul Simon link I posted a few days ago I'm sure
Mental Fairy - I do appreciate rain fog and mist, but sometimes that weather seems like a dark heavy blanket on my mood. Maybe associated atmospheric pressure and pollen counts too.
When the days get shorter, I try to leave a small light on in rooms. I hate stumbling around in the dark in the late afternoon. Evening just seems to come too soon.
-
snoringdog
- Posts: 1450
- Joined: April 23rd, 2019, 5:49 pm
- Gender: male
- Issues: anxiety, depression, automatic negative thoughts, intrusive thoughts, SAD.
- preferred pronoun: "Good Boy!"
- Location: USA
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
Another in a long line of dull grey days here.... shit....
It really feels like a physical weight.
Used my little light just now, and heading out for a walk.
It really feels like a physical weight.
Used my little light just now, and heading out for a walk.
-
Mental Fairy
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: March 24th, 2022, 11:53 am
- Gender: Female
- Issues: Recently sleep walking increased. History of anxiety depression
- preferred pronoun: She
- Location: New Zealand
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
This is going to sound bat crap crazy but I would love a day like that. I can’t explain why but that’s my happy place. Misty gray days. It’s so strange I know.
-
snoringdog
- Posts: 1450
- Joined: April 23rd, 2019, 5:49 pm
- Gender: male
- Issues: anxiety, depression, automatic negative thoughts, intrusive thoughts, SAD.
- preferred pronoun: "Good Boy!"
- Location: USA
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
The sun is out this morning, and I'm sitting with it now full in the face.
(But a feeling of deep sadness too, that's gradually lifting, thank heavens...)
It sucks to be so unstable and affected by the vicissitudes of weather.
(But a feeling of deep sadness too, that's gradually lifting, thank heavens...)
It sucks to be so unstable and affected by the vicissitudes of weather.
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
Lovely!
We’re due for more rain but today is 69 degrees and sunny.
I’m concentrating really hard to send sunny warmth your way, snoringdog.
Rg
We’re due for more rain but today is 69 degrees and sunny.
I’m concentrating really hard to send sunny warmth your way, snoringdog.
Rg
-
snoringdog
- Posts: 1450
- Joined: April 23rd, 2019, 5:49 pm
- Gender: male
- Issues: anxiety, depression, automatic negative thoughts, intrusive thoughts, SAD.
- preferred pronoun: "Good Boy!"
- Location: USA
Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder
8am here, drinking coffee with the sun full in my face. Glorious!Very wet foggy day this morning but blue sky is starting to show, bugger it!
Takes all kinds to make a world.
