Do you suffer from seasonal affective disorder?

typically no, but I think I did last year

I hurt my foot, and barely went outside from January-March, which really wasn't good for my mood. So this year I'm going to make an effort to not let that happen again. Luckily its pretty sunny here year round, even when its cold
 
Yes. Badly.

Normally I can cope until Christmas but I get massively down in September as summer comes to a close and when the clocks go back I’m genuinely depressed. But it’s January when it properly hits me.

I’ve learnt to identify it and work through it, I use light therapy (which seems to work) and wake up lights which also help a lot.
 
Not really, but I'm also so engrossed in work from November until the end of March that I'm basically under high voltage for 4 months.

Duracell got nothing on me.

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I think I do, and it's definitely hitting me more as I get older.

I love being outside, I love going for walks in the evenings, sitting on the beach, having a BBQ, looking at the scenery etc.

I hate that I leave home in the dark and leave work in the dark. I'm better now I'm in my shop because it's basically one big window so I get a lot of natural light. But in previous jobs with no windows I really struggled.
 
No. I absolutely live for the nighttime.

Summer has its perks sure, but I genuinely love the night. I don't want the sun waking me up at 5am.
 
Is SAD exclusively for the dark months or is it any season? Because I’ve noticed that august-September seems to be a bit of a time for me in recent years

That might be a not going out thing too, it’s so hot and humid that it’s fairly miserable to spend much time outside
 
I feel pretty gloomy in the winter. Now I basically work from home full time I'm pretty sure I have some sort of SUNLIGHT DEFICIENCY as well. Not ideal!
 
Queen of the Bay said:
This. Also hate days and weeks of continuous rain that make you feel trapped in a constant late evening. Other than that just a vitamin D deficiency but that's permanent all year round.
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Oh the constant rain and wind is very depressing. I'm usually ok up until Christmas because I pretend to love Christmas to cheer myself up.

But January - March are truly awful.
 
Diddy said:
Is SAD exclusively for the dark months or is it any season? Because I’ve noticed that august-September seems to be a bit of a time for me in recent years
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I get that too some years, and it’s not too strange, the shift from August to September is like the Sunday to Monday of the year (that could be January too), even though I love September.

And I also could get a bit overwhelmed/melancholic in early spring when the days get longer. I don’t know why, but I think it has to do with a sense of something changing fast.
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
I get that too some years, and it’s not too strange, the shift from August to September is like the Sunday to Monday of the year (that could be January too), even though I love September.

And I also could get a bit overwhelmed/melancholic in early spring when the days get longer. I don’t know why, but I think it has to do with a sense of something changing fast.
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That’s the weird thing about it in Japan though, that particular point of the year is really UNchanged, summers are long here, and it’s not really until late October that you feel any change
 
No. I love all seasons, and see they beauty in them all. By the end of Summer I find myself yearning for Autumn/Winter and by the end of Winter I yearn for Spring/Summer but at this point of the dark nights/mornings I really quite enjoy them.
 
I think working in schools and never ever having had a break from education puts me into a pattern of dreading autumn instinctively when really I'd probably love it otherwise (the first half at least).

I definitely get SAD and notice it more and more prominently every year. On weekends if I don't get up early and maximise my sunlight hours I end up crashing. The positive is that the longer nights in spring seem so much better purely by comparison. January onwards is generally easier because you can see the progression each week, but November and December are hellish.
 
My seasonal depression gets really really bad in Winter. Usually it starts around November when it gets darker. There's just no light at all, maybe for about three hours in the daytime if I'm lucky. Usually it's just grey and bleak outside and it makes me feel so numb and sad.
 
nick.kohl said:
My seasonal depression gets really really bad in Winter. Usually it starts around November when it gets darker. There's just no light at all, maybe for about three hours in the daytime if I'm lucky. Usually it's just grey and bleak outside and it makes me feel so numb and sad.
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Where do you live? 3 hours of sunlight sounds bleak
 
Seasonal affective disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that typically occurs during specific seasons, most commonly during the fall and winter months when there is less sunlight. While I'm an AI and don't have personal experiences, I can tell you that SAD affects many people around the world. If you suspect you may have SAD, it's important to consult with a healthcare professional who can provide an accurate diagnosis and recommend appropriate treatments. They may suggest light therapy, medication I ordered for me in my time from Canadian pharmacy,now i feel much better..
 
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Seasonal affective disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that typically occurs during specific seasons, most commonly during the fall and winter months when there is less sunlight. While I'm an AI and don't have personal experiences, I can tell you that SAD affects many people around the world. If you suspect you may have SAD, it's important to consult with a healthcare professional who can provide an accurate diagnosis and recommend appropriate treatments. They may suggest light therapy, medication I ordered for me in my time,now i feel much better..
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Carla12 said:
Seasonal affective disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that typically occurs during specific seasons, most commonly during the fall and winter months when there is less sunlight. While I'm an AI and don't have personal experiences, I can tell you that SAD affects many people around the world. If you suspect you may have SAD, it's important to consult with a healthcare professional who can provide an accurate diagnosis and recommend appropriate treatments. They may suggest light therapy, medication I ordered for me in my time,now i feel much better..
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No I don't think so, not the typical 'winter SAD' anyway. I really like when it snows, and I love the autumn (and the beginning of the academic year) but late spring-summer I'm the opposite of most, probably more depressed, I prefer staying alone, indoors. Though I kind of like how rainy it has been (in the UK/Ireland) this July. :D

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This year is one of the first years where I noticed that I'm feeling a bit off in the lead-up to Christmas. I still have 12-hour workdays from mid-November until next week and no weekends, so it's not like there's a lot of time to time to think about anything but I've caught myself wishing I had more time for family and friends - it's been somewhat tough to make a lot of room for any private life in winter.
 
I've been OK up until about now-ish. Although I could say that about having a cold. I've noticed a general decline in physical and mental the last few days. My therapy has been set up to try and combat it, but we'll have to see.
 
I'm personally feeling cautiously optimistic as in previous years it has tended to hit me most in late autumn. So far this season, not really, if at all.

I'm cautious about being TOO optimistic though, as January is absolutely the worst month generally, and although winter solstice is only 10 days away, I find I don't really appreciate the days beginning to open up until late Jan/early Feb. By that point (and particularly when I begin to see things like daffodils coming up and a few green shoots coming on), spring begins to feel palpable.
 
A couple of years ago it struck around Christmas and then straight into new year. That was rough.
 
I'm still not doing too badly the past weeks seem to have been endlessly dark and rainy and grey. I think forcing myself to run every day has really helped with December so far.
 
Never really had it, but I do really hate the lack of daylight generally. When I worked in an office i thought it was absurd how some days in midwinter you can go a whole day and never see any daylight... even growing up in Northern Europe there is something very wrong about arriving to and leaving work in the dark.
 
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