My sincerest sympathies to anyone who gets seasonal depression…but I don’t get it. I actually loves the winter season. I love dressing in layers and going for morning dog walk breathing in the cold air. Doing a run in the cold with the air slicing through my lungs is the best. Slow cooker meals and soups. Staying indoors under thick covers with warm coffee and tea. Holiday decorations and movies/my music. God I love this time of year and I swear my mental health improves a whole grade level.
Anyone else on this site feel the same???
No offense to you personally, but I feel like some people are oblivious and don’t understand that the holiday season is built on the backs of overworked people. I don’t even work retail anymore, but I see their pain.
Me personally:
- I can’t have a dog because I don’t want to force it to live in my small apartment
- I hate being cold all the time
- I don’t like that it gets dark so early
- I don’t have the luxury of staying indoors, I have to go out in it every day
- Everyone’s in a hurry with short fuses and terrible driving
- When I worked retail you were subjected to holiday music all day, every day and it got very old
I’m genuinely not trying to project these onto you or reduce your seasonal joy, just giving my perspective…
Only when it snows enough to actually be bright outside. The grey drearyness really hits my depression hard. Vitamin d needs to kick in too. Then I’m alright.
I think my eyes are overly sensitive or something because overcast days legit cheer me up, feels like I finally have full use of my face when the sun isn’t smothering it all day.
Bright snowy days are absolutely wonderful though for sure.
i fucking love a warm coffee during this season it makes my life 200% better dont need to worry about sunscreen as much all other seasons suck glory to the ice gods
Yeah. It was 34c here today and I long for Scottish winters right now.
My tolerance for cold is way higher than heat and humidity, so I am with you, it’s always struck me as easier to manage cold with layers and modes of AC, when it’s hot out I am just fucked without any AC.
Yes!! Totally the same. I effing love winter.
I get sadder when it’s gray outside, thankfully nowadays in portugal even winters get pretty sunny, it’s sunny right now but cold
Come to the pnw and see about it lol just constant drizzle
my dream
I fuckin wish, man. We got dumped on in early November and then nothing for like three weeks straight. It’s been sunny every day for the past week! Disgusting! How am I supposed to go skiing or kayaking if there’s no goddamn precipitation!?
Mercifully it looks like our long bright regional nightmare is finally coming to an end.
as if thats a bad thing
I’ve spent my entire life here and the constant drizzle winter is exactly the damn way I like it
I think I just don’t like all the changes in temperature in winter. On a warm summer day, I’m just warm all the time, I can get used to that as long as it’s not extreme heat. In winter once I adjust to the cold outside, I have to get into a full train with electric heating. Then out in the cold again, then warm office.
Annoying AF, abolish heating in public spaces, just wear jacket, scarf, hat all the time and carry a blanket everywhere. Or have cold rail cars so I dont have to peel myself like an onion. Only the workers need heat, screw customers.
I’ll reserve the right to change my oppinion when it’s summer tho.
yea I never get sick in winter. Might be a POC thing who knows, the sun def warms me up more cause of it
I used to love the winter season, but separation from family and friends makes me notice how quiet it is now compared to past years. Also the cold fucks up my hands.
I do appreciate being able to go outside without being harassed by insects though
yeh I love this shit
A little. I have plenty of winter childhood memories, so I often get a little nostalgic when the weather turns cold. I remember one time during one of the winters of my mid-teens when I went to buy a comic I’d waited years to be released. I walked into town and back to save on bus fare then spent the rest of the afternoon reading in bed. That memory stuck with me for how cozy it felt.
Yeah, I feel the same way. I feel like trapped during summer, because it’s just too warm. Everyone else seems to love which makes me feel like the odd one out.
Winter is just so nice. The air is cold and crisp so you feel that you’re breathing. You don’t get sunburns and so much less sweat. Bicycle tours are much nicer (except for even more cars and their pollution). I actually get good sleep, because you can actually turn the room cold instead of just sweating during the night.
For a stint. I like the way the sun hangs in the winter, for the few hours it’s up. Plus I’ve worked jobs where the hours reduced around the holidays, so I’m kinda Pavlovian conditioned.
