Anyone else get depressed in Spring?

No, actually, my life is fucking brilliant. It’s just something in my brain tells me that the lighter nights and warmer days are wank and cause me depression….. must remember to tell others with mental health conditions that their lives are shit.

Do you often comment on posts you know nothing about? Makes you look really silly.

I have mixed feelings about spring. I like the fact that it is getting lighter. My garden is coming back to life. However early spring can feel like an extention of winter and then it just switches to summer. I don't mind warm weather as long as it isn't 30 degrees for weeks on end. It is too early to have a drink in the garden and my hayfever is starting.

No but I do feel like I get it in the summer , which again is the wrong way round , I feel the pressure of summer too much it’s like everyone else loves it and you are always expected to be out the house enjoying the weather so I get it . But I do like spring . Autumn if deffo my fave season of all.

Someone's projecting, I see.

OP, I'm like you. No trauma or anything, no negative associations. I like flowers, being outdoors, wildlife etc. But I absolutely loathe longer, lighter days. It really bothers me and makes me feel weirdly exposed and unsettled. March and April are my least favourite months of the year and I really struggle with them.

Yes I do. I hate summer and dread it coming.

As the first ray of sun poked out from behind the clouds yesterday the football was out in the road. Bomp bomp bomp. Roll on October.

Yes I think you might be on to something

Gardening is one of the reasons I hate it. I dug out loads of weeds and dead annual plants this week and now it just looks brown, dead and crap in the sunshine. The chairs have gone rusty and need sorting, a big trellis has broken and so on. It's like an extra room to clean!

Hello people who hate winter and get SAD. You always tell winter-loving people to fuck off out of your threads when they pop up and say how much they like autumn, please don't do the same here.

I have summer variant SAD which I've battled all my life. Spring is the worst time because the DREAD of months and months of hot bright days is just awful. I specifically took up gardening so I would have something to look forward to about summer and it's mostly worked. I don't feel too awful these days and genuinely enjoying seeing my plants come into leaf and flower. But sometimes someone says something that catches me unawares - like last week someone said in a meeting "and I can speak for all of us when I say isn't it lovely summer is coming" and it was like nails on a blackboard to me. Not only is bloody summer coming to burn me out of of my jeans and fill my head with wasps, but everyone else is dancing up and down for joy.

I am soooo excited. I'm done with the dark, cold & damp now. I love the longer days.
We got a puppy mid November and I cannot wait to be walking him in the dry and daylight and warm (not hot) sunshine after work.

Absolutely same - I think it’s the bright chilly sunny days where one feels the pressure to be outside but it’s not all that pleasant yet. Love summer, autumn and sometimes winter but spring is by far my least favourite season.

If you are overweight you don't look any more overweight in summer weight clothes - honestly.

In hot weather people in baggy jumpers just look like people trying to hide their bodies.

There are clothes for every shape and size that flatter whatever shape you are - believe me.

No. I'm driving down the M5, the sun is shining and my car recorded 17 degrees at one point.

I am fed up of the relentless rain and grey gloom we have had this winter. I have driven past loads of flooded fields and feel sorry for the farmers.

I’m really struggling right now. I like winter. I like cold. It makes me feel alive. we get warmer shorter winters every year- except 2018- and I worry how it’ll be when my children are grown up? I also don’t need it to be the end of February for personal reasons. I don’t want all the bloody snowdrops when we’ve only had 1 day of snow. it’s just so depressing 🥺

its your life thats shit not the time of year (applies to all SAD).

Same. I hate March. Completely pointless. April is no better as I don't like Easter.

I love Spring and Summer. Just thought to myself I'm looking forward to tennis on the tv and cricket on the radio, flowers in the garden, washing on the line. Driving home from work in daylight and getting home and it still being light enough to do stuff.

Yesterday was the first spring day we've had. We've had endless rain this year, we had the full months rain in the first two weeks of February where I am, it just felt relentless.

Winter wouldn't have been so bad without all the bloody rain.

I was thinking of this thread as I walked the dog, and speculating that lots of the spring-dislikers might be urban dwellers, apprehensive about warm weather in small houses, not being able to open windows without letting in noise and fumes. And not having much private outdoor space, relying on overused public spaces that might be stressful, npoisy, etc.

But, reading the thread, that doesn't actually seem to be the main focus at all. One thing I'm seeing, that I can empathise with, is that spring and summer for many of you are times when you feel more pressure to go out and "do" stuff, enjoy the weather, etc. I guess that it particularly a problem when you have young or youngish children.

I'm the other way round, though. I find Christmas (and the exhaustingly long build up to Christmas) the time of greatest pressure to do certain things, create certain experiences with the children. Warmer weather seems to be less infected with social expectations than the winter. I feel less in society, more in nature.

I'm very lucky, though. I live in a rural area where it is really possible to respond to the change of season. For me it seems almost a biological thing, hardwired by evolution, to unfold into the outside as the spring arrives.

It's quite interesting how different everyone is! What drives me mad is when the spring and Summer lovers endlessly complain about the winter and if anymore dare complain in reverse they are in total disbelief and outraged.

Yep! I wouldn't say I'm depressed necessarily but the last couple of really bright, warmer days has been disappointing for sure!

I quite like the novelty of the change but once that's worn off I could do without it. When the tides turn in Sept/Oct now that's when I get joyful! Getting my big coat out of the wardrobe? Bliss!

Nope. I fucking love it. Light mornings and evenings, can’t bloody wait. Bring it on.

I really hate the clocks going forward and the theory about assosiating this season with approaching exams makes sense for me. Also I've got a lot of bad memories of this season for various reasons.