How do seasonal changes attect you?

Question

Personally, I don't mind the longer evenings. I just take each season as it comes. You?


Seasonal Affective Disorder
I found a good link if you are interested.
http://www.webmd.com/depression/tc/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad-topic-overview?ecd=wnl_day_111607

Answer 1

I'm one of the people (like you) who is not normally affected by this. I can go threw a whole winter without any worry whatsoever, as long as there is SOME sun in the week.

What affects me more is the hot, hot summer. As I get older I am less able to tolerate the extremely high temperatures that Toronto can achieve during a typical summer. With humidex it is nothing for the temperature to soar over 110F. I have to wear all light colours, and spend as much time in the shade as possible, and make sure that if I walk ANYWHERE I have a bottle of gatorade on me, because without it I'd be passing out. It makes it harder to tolerate, because I have to walk my grandsons to school in the morning, pick them up at lunch, take them back after lunch, and pick them up again after school. That is a lot of walking on extremely hot days. On the very worst ones, I will pack a lunch and take it to school so that the kids may eat in the playground with their friends.

This intolerance to heat is only getting worse, as well. I will soon have to be thinking of alternatives to being out in the heat quite so much.

Answer 2

I do great in the winter. Summer is my problem. I live in the southwest desert. The winters are great and I am out and about. In the summer, sense I live in an RV, I have to cover the ceiling vents and all the windows to keep out the sun and help insulate. I basically live in a cave and am a hermit. I only go out in that heat (sometimes as high as 122%) for groceries and unavoidable errands. I have one more summer here before I move to a cooler climate. Next summer I am turning my days and nights around. I plan to go to bed around 11a.m. and get up around 7p.m. My friends are all gone in the summers anyway and this is a 24 hour town. I worked the graveyard shift for many years so this will be easy. My place is so dark in the summer I have to use lights, but it is a necessity. I miss light and I do get depressed at times.

Answer 3

A quiet Autumn note, and I do like it but with one or two reservations. May I? Does sol creep along....doesn't it 'rise'? Your sun sounds as if it is moving horizontally. And although you rightly have apostrophe s after Season so the sentence means - the change of the season/bears down soon....my brain turned it into 'Seasons change. Bears down soon....and I got an image of all the 'bears' descending from the hills. My faulty brain, I think...but it might be something worth looking at. From 'Leaves will fall.........perfect, lovely imagery

Answer 4

I really don't like the Winter. If I could, I would hibernate until April. It is cold, damp windy and rainy. I always get the flue or a cold because my patients seem to cough over me when I am working with them. I don't like the gloomy short days. The only time I am ok is when I go to my cottage in Wales and light the wood burning stove and don't leave the house for a few days. Central heating in a house in London is not quite the same. Anyone thinking of coming to London avoid December till April!

Answer 5

Sorry to be late on chiming in on this one, but being in Alaska...it's a BIG DEAL here....we're not talking just a little earlier evening. Our sun comes up around 10am right now and is going down closer to 2:30pm...we lose about 7 mins a day and you can bet we all celebrate the day after solstice (Dec. 21)where we gain back about 2 minutes. I've full spectrum lights and the sun lamps and you still get a tad sullen with no daylight for weeks on end. Obviously it is a chronic problem here.

I will add...we have a kick butt summer though!

Answer 6

Have mood disorder and shorter amount of daylight, lots of Grey cloudy days, play havoc on me. Every light in our home is Fluorescent but that still doesn't shake off the sadness that comes and goes. Our home gets less sunlight in Fall/Winter also. Am most happy when outside walking or working in the garden, hate being confined inside during the winter months.
Arthur is the worst company in Fall and Winter. We are surrounded by lots of neighbors with fireplaces/wood burning stoves, which makes me cough and eyes water when I try to take a walk.

Answer 7

Personally I don't like the winter. The long nights and dark mornings. Its tooooo cold. I like the spring makes me think of new things, I love the summer because my caravan in wales is open and I can commune again with nature. The Autumn reminds me that winter is on its way but then the smells and colours of Autumn are fabulous.
So, I was born in June and therefore I love the summer, the warm sun and the smell of summer flowers. Bloomin luverly.

Answer 8

The changes affect me very
drastically. I don't have asthma in the summer, but it starts to come back in the late Fall, then I have to start with the inhalers and be very careful who I am around. Wood heat is hell on
my breathing and there's a line of private homes just out
my back door that all have
wood heat. My furnace sucks
it in and I have a houseful of
smoke. Many times, I just have to leave and get fresh air.
While I am on my soapbox.
Dear Friends, Will you PLEASE cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough!!!
There are those of us that
when we get a cold it may
mean a trip to the ER.
Every time I go out in public,
there's always someone who
deliberately comes up to me
and coughs in my face, then
says, "I'm sorry". Well that
doesn't cut it, it's too late then.
I have taken to wearing a
face mask when something
contagious is going around.
Other people look at us like
we're from outer space so
tough luck.
Also, to keep from getting
many ills, wash your hands
as soon as you come into the
house, and even after you
have touched many items
in any store.
We will be getting bugs we
have never had before. I
personally blame that on China also as I do believe it's
part of the bird flu (that we
have never had and have no
antibodies for.)
Helpful hint to any ashma
sufferers: Keep a ziploc baggie in your purse, in it put
a kleenex that's drenched with
Kaz (which is an medicine
that goes into vaporizers.) available at any pharmacy.
This medicine is Menthol oil/
Eucalyptus oil and camphor oil. When anyone is coughing
or sneezing around you, open the baggie and breath in a couple times. It is well known
in alternative health circles
that most flu virus cannot
live in the presence of these
3 oils, especially the eucalyptus (as Aussies know.)

Answer 9

I enjoy the changes. I used to hate winters but right now I'm like another poster who simply can't handle the heat anymore. I lived in Florida and had my fill of sun and heat and humidity. Strange change for me since I was always cold before. But the endless days of gloom does get to me after awhile.

Thanks for the tip with Kaz. I have asthma and severe allergies and it does concern me comming down with a cold and such since there isn't a place to go where people aren't sneezing and coughing all over the place. Especially with that new strain of cold virus now to worry about.

Answer 10

Lack of long days [daylight] and sunnier/warm skies DO affect me....it was only in the past couple of years I heard the terms seasonal mood affective disorder...and realized that's what I get. I have to work really hard not to get down. I have always been a summer, sun baby :-)