Does the weather have an effect on your mood? Do you have memories linked to weather?

Question

It was all dark and cloudy and rainy today, and I realized it made me feel sort of depressed and sad, lonely, moody, and pessimistic. Does weather affect your mood too?

And the same way in which smells can have memories attached, or can evoke memories in a powerful way, does any weather affect you that way too? Like for me, when I think of windy autumn days with leaves blowing in the wind, and when I actually experience that weather in the fall, it makes me depressed because I once was going through a difficult time during that season, and whenever I think of it or feel that weather, it makes me sad.

Answer 1

I have seasonal affect disorder which is a more severe form of the winter blues. I think it's normal for people to feel gloomy on gloomy days. Get some professional help if it goes beyond the blues.

It's interesting that you feel sad in the fall, because I feel exactly the opposite, I love the fall. I think it's because that was when my daughter was born. I usually perk up in mood on blustery days like that.

Answer 2

Yes weather affects the mood. I use to live in NY and during the Summer, Early fall I would feel great and motivated. During the winter and early springs I felt depressed, tired, lack of energy, bla feeling all the time. My business would go way down in the winter and I felt like I didn't want to work. I felt as if I could hibernate all winter-
I don't feel the effects of Fall depressing me because I still have the summer sun left on my mind so the Fall acts as a break. Even first snow fall isn't bad, however I believe the hype of the holidays really aliviate that. Come Jan1- May 1 in Northern States I am a complete mess-

So winter really affects me in a big big way!

So that is why we moved to Florida and I can tell you I am a new person. I think people with ADD really get hit hard with weather change and they don't know it. I have ADD and I think alot of sunshine is helping me-

My advice to you is to move where it is mostly sunny. Depression from weather doesn't improve, it gets worse each year-

Answer 3

There are studies that connect weather with long periods of high temperatures to increase in crime. It is believed that people get irritable and hostile when it is extremely hot. Law enforcement agencies have statistics that shows the correlation of the two. Think about how you felt if ever you had experienced a heat wave: hot, irritable, frustrated, maybe even angry. Another way that has been proven and documented that the weather can affect your mood is called SAD. SAD stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a syndrome characterized by depression during winter months when there is less daylight. Seasonal Affective Disorder is directly related or even caused by too little sunlight, which causes the body's time clock to go out of sync, thus upsetting the body's routine, and may even affect certain hormonal levels in the body. The symptoms of SAD are depression, sadness, lethargy, fatigue, excessive sleeping, difficulty getting up in the morning, loss of appetite or increased eating of carbohydrates, thus increase in weight, decreased activity and socialization, apathy, irritability.
In conclusion I believe bright, sunny days, and rainy, stormy days affect everyone the way each individual person lets it afffect them. Weather doesnt really affect me. unless im in the mood for a certain type of weather and I get something else.... Just like if you get a sweater for christmas when you really wanted a ring :o) Hope that helps

Answer 4

Ask any teacher if weather affects their student's moods. The answer will be a resounding "Yes"!
I find myself more depressed on cold rainy days.
In 1991 we had a tornado in the district where I taught. I was also the Junior High Track coach. One day a couple of months after the tornado, a thunderstorm suddenly blew up during a track meet. On the first close lightning strike, most of my athletes ran to their parents and friends cars and went home -- in the middle of the meet! Needless to say, we canceled the remainder of the meet.

Answer 5

yes it does because I lost my father during the summer and now that it is summer I can barely sleep at night. I wish it was fall or winter because it feels better and I like the sight of rain, snow and leaves blowing everywhere.

There is a medical term for this I think it is called SAD the S and D means Seasonal Depression but I forgot what the A mean. It is normal.

Answer 6

The weather itself does not affect my mood, but the temperature that results from weather does. If its an extremely hot day, I become sluggish and depressed. Likewise, if it is too cold to leave the house, I also tend to get depressed. The best kind of weather is the type that promotes mild temperatures.

Answer 7

Weather affects me that way too. One Christmas (it was probably in 1978 or in 1977) when i was a child it was really unusually warm and all my family was at my house-aunts, uncles, cousins. We had the doors open and me and my cousins was playing out side -it was so humid in the house with the cooking and everything and whenever the weather is like that in the winter i think about that Christmas.

Answer 8

Yes, actually it has been proven that weather does affect your mood! Did you know that smell is the best trigger of the 5 senses for memory?

Answer 9

often i can relate certain events wiht the weather that occured but only if it directly effect the outcome of the event. An example is I can remember that so-and-so came over on this day and we couldnt go outside and play.

and about feelings related to weather. yeah on a cloudy day i feel like doing nothing and when its hot it feel like i worked my butt off when i really just sat on the sofa with the ac on ..weird but kinda kewl

Answer 10

I've always liked rain, maybe because it kinda gets exciting, especially thunderstorms, but i guess I feel like the same person though. I think rain is always good ..water keeps everything alive. I just remember as a kid i always loved bad weather .