Anyone else not enjoy the season change to Spring?

I love it and don’t love it at the same time. I love when winter is on its way out, but Spring always stirs up some sad feelings for me. Same with September when Autumn starts to appear. It’s all to do with events that have happened in those months in the past.

I think I know what you mean. I am usually at my lowest about mid February - I suspect it is because that’s about as much of the winter and dark I can take.

I also find the Spring term the hardest. The Autumn term starts off warm and ends with Christmas. The summer term is quite short and, after the exams, has a load of fun stuff like sports day. The Spring term starts in the dark slump after Christmas, takes in Lent and ends before Easter.

I don't like the summer months much and have to opposite to those who love it warm or really hot. Much prefer autumn / winter

Thank you for posting as I’ve been finding the transition difficult.
But I also find summer very difficult. I have never been able to describe what it is - the pressure that everyone else starts to feel better with the light and I feel the same or even worse?? I do genuinely like spring for its flowers and blossom but the warming weather and change in light I’m finding hard and feel more anxious.

I don't find spring sad personally, but on a previous occasion of hearing someone dislike spring, I found this poem which I really enjoyed:

poets.org/poem/spring-0

Whereabouts do you live to have had no snow at all?

No I love it. The lengthening days, the first snowdrop and new born lambs.

I get it.

Used to HATE spring but made peace with it through having my own garden but still find it difficult .

For me it's everything gets very busy - school pressure, spring clean, new season clothes, tons of birthdays, Easter, holidays etc in a barrage of never ending tasks.
Plus weathers is so unpredictable. If it's sunny it's freezing if it's dry it's grey, if it's warm it's wet.

I relax about May when everything calms down and we get reliably good weather, lots of light and you can put on a T shirt and sandals without needing tons of layers and or waterproofs.

Same, find it a sad season. Autumn is my favourite.

Last year it was at the end of August, it totally threw me with how early it was and I thought my 'senses' were off but they weren't. Even the late summer we got in September wasn't the same, it had an Autumn "feel'. But I can't describe it to people without feeling like I sound a bit nutty!

I love feeling the seasons change though!

Any change of season gives me a funny feeling a can't describe! It's not sadness though. Maybe anxiety and fear of change?

I would live in permanent Winter if I could.

I think a pp may be correct in the fact it may be the depletion of your vit D levels from the lack of daylight throughout the winter, I had never thought of it this way but it makes perfect sense.
I'm the opposite I love spring, I love seeing things coming back to life and I literally countdown to summer for proper daylight.
That said I hate 21st June as it's downhill from there whereas the 21st December it is on the up

But that's not what the OP is saying. She said she likes Summer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zngr

Interesting piece on this podcast about summer SAD.

I feel weird about spring too. But only as an adult; as a child I loved it. I think it's because in the summer months I (irrationally) feel pressure to be out and about and spontaneous and sociable. None of which particularly appeal to me and this irrational pressure makes me feel anxious and sad! In autumn and winter it's more permissable to hibernate and disappear into myself (again, irrational I realise). Spring to me feels like I'm being forced to emerge from hibernation and I feel exposed and vulnerable.

Having said all that, once we get to May I enjoy the warmth and flowers. But July/August? Hate, hate, hate!!

We have this exact same thread every year.

Not saying the following this you OP but as soon as April hits you have the thread where people are ‘dreading’ a heat wave because last year was so hot’, despite it barely getting over 25C last year even in the South East.

Then those same people are looking forward to it being winter and being ‘cozy’ and drinking ‘hot choc’.

I thought this was defined as a response to lack of sunshine. Like a chemical deficit. As in, there is a physical, tangible cause. Its just feelings then?

I love the signs of spring, makes me feel so hopeful. It was cold but sunny today and I had so much more energy. It's the dull, dark, wet grey days that really get me down.

I do love spring, the smells, the light mornings and the sun on my face, and fully intend to sit on the patio in my anorak and drink a glass of Rose this weekend.

BUT. It also means jobs. Lawn mowing, weeding, cleaning stuff, keeping overgrown stuff back, the ability to sit down at the weekend and just relax is gone.

Could it be that?

Yes, I get anxious as Spring approaches.

Ive seen Daffodils starting to push up, birds singing loudly, and the tree buds starting to show and its still light when i leave work now.

Ive always felt this way. I think its because I'm a home body and like Autumn and winter as its quieter outside and more acceptable to stay inside. Give it another month or two and the place will be teaming with people shouting, playing loud music, dogs barking, people banging about doing DIY, cars farting up and down the roads with music blaring, festivals, markets, fairs and god knows what other noise.

Spring is definitely my least favourite season but I think for me it's more to do with the slowness of the weather getting warmer. There are signs but it can be bitterly cold Feb and March.

I love September to December as the nights draw in.

Seasonal Affected Disorder can actually occur at any time. Some people get it in Summer!