Seasonal Affective Disorder

Does anyone here get it (or believe in it for that matter)?Personaly i'm already getting p issed off at the thought of winter.
:( :( :(

occasionally get it, some days if I'm not working and it's gloomy out, I'll just hibernate for a few days

I really hate starting work when it's dark and finishing when it is dark again.

I would like to move to somewhere in the same time zone where the weather is better for the winter.

Lanzarote sounds nice.

S.A.D does exist but not for me. I just love the nights now they are drawing in I can't wait for the leaves to fall and take long romantic walks ,wrapped up in warm coats and gloves ,kicking the fallen leaves.
Bonfire night with friends drinking mulled wine and eating baked potatoes, and Christmas just around the corner with all the lovely presents and parties.
And then the celebration of a new Year and all the dreams and wishes that come with it.

Yes I am a hopeless romantic. :) :) :)

Ask me again at Xmas, when its dark at 3pm and light at 8am.

The latest syndrome is TATT - Tired all the time. Now thats one I do get.

I am also prone to TATT, although if left unchecked you can be F.U.C.T.

Failed Under Continuous Testing

I do love winter though - much the same as flower

SOMP

I must admit that, along with flower and SOMP I love winter. The city lights twinkling in the distance, snow crunching underfoot (in Sweden mind, not Ireland!). I am of the opinion that the as lights glow more softly, people's attitudes moderate, thoughts turn inward. It's a contemplative season. Although I'm not fond of the Irish Christmas, there's no tradition in it. Give me a Swedish Christmas (on the the 24th) any day. I'm just thankful I've been invited this year!

Ok so I invited myself as usual :D

Nial

I get slightly depressed in the winter months but I think it's only when the sky is overcast...it can be damn cold but as long as I can see blue sky, I'm fairly happy.

As you fellow Brits know, it is quite often overcast for days on end here in the UK and that affects me quite badly!

My personal favourite is when flying away on holiday...the moment the aircraft breaks through the cloud and blue sky is visable.....you can't beat it! :cool:

I always take my main holiday of the year in February - simply can't bear the prospect of going through the whole winter without at least a three week escape to the Far East. The older I get, the more miserable winter makes me.

Having real problems just now with S.A.D. Keep taking the St Johns Wort!

I think Winter can be a bit depressing as a lot of the plants and tress are bare...and it looks like there is very little action.
Its worse too with the shorter daylight hours.

I can see too how winter can be nice..all cosy etc. but only if with a partner i suppose.

Surely flight crews dont get SAD as much due to exposure to masses of sunlight when at FL350 every day..leaving all the crap behind on the ground!

Niall - I know what you mean. Still annoys me that we celebrate christmas though, I'd prefer to celebrate the solstice - a nice secular holiday :)
Normally don't get S.A.D. unless we have a *long* session of rainy weather. :( And then going out for a drink with old friends helps.

Winter's pretty ***** tho let's face it:

No decent weather to go bikin in.

All the decent sport finishes (ie Bikes).

Women start wrapping themselves up in big baggy jumpers.

It costs and arm & a leg to go anywhere warm.

You start having Hot-Bovril before going to bed.

You go to bed about seven in the evening.

You can't go jumping into rivers or lakes without fear of death.

Xmas present worries

Singing that stupid jock song at new year.....

January.....sucks from start to finish.

No decent weather to go bikin in.

Erm.... yes there is, you just keep falling off on the ice ;)

Women start wrapping themselves up in big baggy jumpers.

I love big wooly jumpers on ladies :) They just look so dang snuggleable :)

It costs and arm & a leg to go anywhere warm.

Hmmm. Under the covers is warm :)
(I love winter saturday mornings - it's so damn nice waking up in a warm bed in a cold room :)

You start having Hot-Bovril before going to bed.

Bovril - ick. Hot chocolate - mmmmm. And you can have Hot Chocolate anytime!

You can't go jumping into rivers or lakes without fear of death.

I'm not a good swimmer so that's normal :)

Xmas present worries

versus birthday worries, mothers day, fathers day, secretary's day .....

I detest the short days... and I hate them more as I get older. I don't think I've got SAD, I'm just a sun-worshipper.

Hersh

I hate the Grey and brown of Winter (and to a lesser degree of summer)

Bring on the Blues and Greens of Summer i say!

I used to get it when I was in Her Majesties Flying Club in the winter period when I worked in the Wing Operations Bunkers and we started at 0700 in the dark and left at 1900 in the dark, never seeing daylight from one day to the next in the four shift cycle that we worked.

Used to go under a light for a few hours and it seemed to be a bit better..

Now it's just stress from the commercial department..

VEEPS

:)

I notice a few people have romantic notions of winter but they seem to miss out the dark cold wet mornings/nights. Frosty mornings scraping the ice of your windscreen/airplane with a credit card/cassette box. Popping out on an errund or to got to the gym etc in the evening, having to leave a warm house to go out in the bitter cold, waiting for the car heater to warm up and worst of all hours of awful artificial light...nahhh winter bites!

Read an article recently that said St Johns Wort doesn't do anything for you, most, if not all, its claims are false! (I've never tried it).

A clinically proven fact is that Vit. D, (obtainable from the sun, for example), does have a cheering up element to it.

Main problem here is preventing getting soggily waterlogged in winter. If you're serious about S.A.D., there are lamps you can buy that are the same frequency as sunlight.

Well Rolling T, given that joe public pay for street lights then why shouldn't all street lights be as you describe?

Next thing you know you will have well dressed blokes, carrying umbrellas, spinning round lamposts and singing their heads off in the pi$$ing rain!:)

Here in Bonnie Scotland plenty of folk get SAD in the winter.

Come to think of it, they get it in summer as well.

yep...sad at not seeing a cloud for months on end...
sad at having it rain 3-4 days per year
sad at having to go to the beach every other day
sad at the flat calm seas
sad about the bluddy heat!!! (42 today)

When in Alaska, folks counteracted by:
--exercising (health clubs were popular)
--going to tanning booths
--getting outside whenever possible for activity liike hiking, skiing, whatever. Don't hibernate!

Very definitately. I love those crisp mornings and golden colours of autumn, plus the green shoots of spring. But it's that hellish period inbetween. Apart from toboganning on the snow of course, followed by full roast lunch and a stiff dram by the fire.

Hibernation is the only answer, off to my cardboard box full of straw in the airing cupboard shortly.

I love the winters here, walking beside the Ural River with a gentle breeze gusting in from the Russian Steppes via Siberia.

With the temperature hovering around a slightly nippy -30C the water in corner of your eyes freezes as the temperature dips slightly to around -40C or more (less?) due to the windchill. It was such exquisite agony until I realised why everyone else was wearing wraparound shades. :rolleyes: However now that Messers Helly Hansen have kitted me out from top to toe I look forward to the time when the weather turns a bit Pearl Harbor (nasty nip in the air).

However summertime is wonderful with temperatures up to +40C (+27 right now) and all the devoushkas (young ladies) are in their teeny tops and miniskirts strolling past the beer kiosks by the Ural. Although Kazakhstan is technically Muslim the dress code is more Barbie then Berka :D :D

So, no I don't suffer from SAD.

Sounds lovely, LowNSlow. I like climates where in Winter it is very definately cold and the Summer boiling hot. Problem I find with the wx in the UK is that it is mediocre most of the time - rarely very warm for any length of time, yet never cold enough to make you really appreciate being cosy cuddled up inside... :p

Ah, but you can't beat driving home on a wet miserable, cold Monday morning, after your last 12-hour night shift, knowing there's a warm duvet to meet you and 4 DAYS OFF!!

JBF:D