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Around the holidays, I'm overflowing with happiness. But now I just want winter to go away and give me summer. It's really starting to hit me hard, the SAD. I miss being able to be outside. I can't even run outside because it's too cold and all the trails are being used for snowmobiles. There's no escaping, just waiting!
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It may be SAD, but I think there are more triggers than just shorter days. The "Holiday Season" is a sure-fire way to reach for the Zoloft. However my deepest depressions tend to come in the transitional seasons like fall and spring. Especially spring, since it's a time of rebirth and I generally feel that I am still in gestation until further notice.
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Winter is my least favorite season. My favorite activities are things I can't do outdoors in winter. And I like to spend time in nature so to speak, nature is less alive and interesting in winter IMO. YMMV
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It's seasonal depression. Open your curtains durring the day to let more sunlight in and try to find fun indoor activities.
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It's seasonal depression. Open your curtains durring the day to let more sunlight in and try to find fun indoor activities.
I try not to let it get to me but some days it's just sad that it's too cold to do anything outside and I work out of my unheated garage so... yeah, winter can be depressing if you let it.
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i do tend to feel a little like you described, but i choose not to think about it like an oppression. the Canadian winters can be cruel so i simply remind myself that it is a choice that i live here and to 'get over it'. when i have had enough of it i will choose to move to a warmer climate.
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I too prefer the winter, perhaps for some of the same reasons you say depress you! Yes, I feel the push of introspection that there just isn't time for in the summer (even though there's more hours of daylight)! The increase of night-time hours leaves us with less to do, (yet what did they do before TV and computers!!??), the weather (in this area of Canada at least!) conspires to keep you indoors more, less vitamin D etc. Plus it's just SO sad and lonely without the constant company of our national bird, the mosquito! (SNIFF!)
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I too prefer the winter, perhaps for some of the same reasons you say depress you! Yes, I feel the push of introspection that there just isn't time for in the summer (even though there's more hours of daylight)! The increase of night-time hours leaves us with less to do, (yet what did they do before TV and computers!!??), the weather (in this area of Canada at least!) conspires to keep you indoors more, less vitamin D etc. Plus it's just SO sad and lonely without the constant company of our national bird, the mosquito! (SNIFF!)
Yet how one responds to it is their choice. I'll admit that country living makes it a lot easier, but one can intentionally choose to get involved in something that gets them out on the land, in the weather. Modern clothing provides degress of comfort our ancestors would have given their frost-bit big toe for.
Probably going to get bit for this, but I think Seasonal Affective Disorder -- except for extreme cases -- is mostly a choice. A choice not to get out and active. When was the last time you heard a skiier or a snowboarder turn down a day on the hill "because their SAD was acting up? When was the last time you heard a snowmobiler, or ice-fisherman (who I think are just plain scary!) say the winter depresses them?
We all feel the same seasonal pulls on our emotions. The main difference between those in the elevator who b*tch about the winter and those who love it, is choice of whether they will embrace it or not!
And BTW if you ride the elevator with me in the winter, you might think better to gripe about the winter weather. Many people find it disconcerting to share an enclosed space with someone who won't join them in bashing winter. I love it; therefore I must be crazy! Right?
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I have been a long time Minnesotan and each year, the winter gets a bit longer.
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