does the weather influence your mood?

Question

today is the 1st day of our summer,and for the third weekend straight it is wet and miserable. we are in a drought so the rain is needed but today it is making me feel gloomy and lethargic

Answer 1

The weather very much does influence your mood and just recently I did n assignment on depression and there's actually a type of depression called SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder and what happens is that as the seasons or weather changes depending on you - you can become depressed

don't worry about it though
i just found it interesting

Answer 2

It used to really influence my mood. I didn't like winter, started dreading it before it even got here and just wanted to hibernate until summer came around again. Now I enjoy the season changes, esp after the long, dry summer we had this year. I've always enjoyed the rain, but I can see how it would get you down with summer beginning and you wanting to get outside. Hope you have a nice sunny day soon.

Answer 3

It did when I lived in the snow belt in Ohio but that all changed last year when I moved south to be closer to family & to escape the brutal Ohio winters. I hated to see autumn come because I knew what was right around the corner. The winters were soooo long & so brutal & it depressed me. It was nothing to be stuck inside for three straight days because of the blizzards or near blizzards. I always began stocking up on food & necessities in the late summer, so I'd be prepared for the winters. I am really enjoying the weather here in the south. It's very rare not to have sunshine each day. Last winter was my first winter down here & it seemed so nice not to have snow. They have had snow here but that was years ago, when they got an inch.

Answer 4

No,Sammi-c -it just makes a lot of changes in plans,i.e. Iowa is in for everything from rain to mix to solid ice from 6 a.m. Sat. to 6 a.m. Sun.
so that means some plan changes.

I am pretty housebound and have a lot of interests so bad weather doesn't affect me other than the weeks of ice we had last winter that drove us to a motel 20 mi. away til our town got the electricity back. Yet the devastation all around the world of homes and lives lost makes our trial pretty petty by comparison.Actually we make the choice about what our mood will be in any given circumstance so don't choose gloom and doom.
It only makes you miserable. I use my time of bad weather to indulge in what I enjoy.

Answer 5

The weather does influence my mood. If it is gloomy and raining, all I want to do is ..... nothing. Here, the winter months are upon us. The sunny days make me want to get outside and do anything. I can't wait until summer comes this way again.

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Answer 6

When I first moved to the pacific northwest from San Diego (in November, no less!), the gray days and the rain were really depressing. After 17 years, however, I have found that the best way to get over that is embrace it and get out in it. Each season has its beauty and the challenge is to find it. Now each day I choose my mood instead of letting the weather choose it for me.

Answer 7

Yes, I hate cold days,real windy days foggy gloomy days, snow (even thought I don't get any here) . I do like rainy days, and we do need the rain.
I am more of a Spring, Summer person. I kind of hibernate during the winter.

Answer 8

I'm going to own up to being an odd ball on this...I prefer the winter dullness, dont get me wrong I like sunny days too if it's not too hot, but I think my strange preference stems back from when my children where small and you could get them in very early all bathed and tucked up and snuggle in bed by 7pm, which gave me longer to snuggle up by the fire with my late husband, I have such fond memories of those times, so winter is my favorite time of year, but I expect it would be a different story if I had to cope with some of the winters many have to endure out in the middle of nowhere and snowed in

Answer 9

There are many people who suffer when the sky dims and
the rains fall, and the sun hides behind the clouds. So there
is special lighting now that can provide a bit of relief for those
individuals. It allows a brighter light to fill a room and not allow
it to remain dim and depressing. From my information from
a couple of people who are using it, it does help their depres-
sion when the sun isn't shining. I suggest you look into it for a remedy to your mood swings. As it is the only solution I can think of recommending.

Answer 10

yeah, it does, and i'm 25, but what has made the difference is that nowadays i'm unemployed and don;t have obligations. I came to the conclusion that this seasonal mood changes has to do with primitive instincts. Why would you be hopping all over the place if, in the primitive environment, when theres rain, there are no animals to be hunt, theres no sun to provide us with energy, theres no meaning . Thats why we get so slow. To save energy. Society wants us to be warm and working day after day, no matter what, but that not natural. There are hot and cold days, warm is an invention of the industry, that wanted us to be there , working no matter what, even if to do so they had to have us drugged up with prozac and the stuff they shovel down our thROATS.