Dh changes when a full moon

My mother worked her whole career in A&E and said that full moons were the worst nights

Yeah my siblings mental health gets worse in the build up to a full moon. My dog too seems affected

My inappropriate hair growth is due to PMOS (formerly known as PCOS) but the lack of sleep during the full moon might just make me go howl at it someday. It's not something I have tried yet.

@Flannelfeet I'm with you on the headaches too! I love thunderstorms because of the pressure release they bring. Can you smell incoming snow too by any chance?

@Touristtrainstuffedtothebrim Is he struggling with sleep? It is more common than you would think for the full moon to cause insomnia and the resulting irritability. There have been threads on here about it, obviously it's mostly women's experience. Close friend is a psychiatric nurse and he struggles to sleep at the same time, while dealing with the most volatile cases at work.

My mum had severe dementia and spent her last few months in a care home. Both of the floor managers told me several times that they dreaded the full moon each month because it affected the residents’ behaviour and mood so significantly.

Yeah I call them "pressure headaches", my mother gets them too. They are not like normal headaches.

I read that when I was pg with DC 3 (now 26) and told then DH. He suggested it was because amniotic fluid was tidal, which I have to admit I find funny!

The full moon does modestly reduce sleep quality, which can make people a bit grouchier.

But crime rates and ER admissions are so easy to measure that any real behavioural impact would be obvious — and the evidence is somewhere between "non-existent" and "extremely thin".

I think you're a biased source on this one.

The reason that lunatics where so called absolutely was because it was believed that the moon made people mad. That it isnt true doesnt mean that this wasnt considered a medical fact at the time.

I still think the PP has an obvious anti-moon agenda.

of course the full moon affects people! given "that we're mostly made of water, think of the effect of the moon on the tides etc and on nature. of course it affects us as well"

As a previous poster pointed out this comment is largely hokum. There is a difference in gravity from the oceans facing the moon and the oceans on the opposite side of the Earth, causing bulges in those bodies of water and low tides in the areas between them.

This difference is negligible for a human being....

So why isnt there any evidence to back it? It would be so easy to evidence, I think people have just encouraged it and it’s just confirmation bias at this point.

Its not your imagination. Every nurse in the land knows it will all go tits up on the full moon and patients will run amok.

I agree with this. The full moon can really give you a rubbish night's sleep, probably just because it's so bright and light outside all night. A bad night's sleep leads to irritability.

I work in care and the amount of times someone has said ‘bloody hell whats going on, is it a full moon or something?!’ And we’ve checked and it is, can’t be a coincidence. So it’s not just because we know it’s a full moon and are on the look out for it.

and I don’t think it’s confirmation bias because I do remember a time (but only one time) where someone said it and it wasn’t a full moon- almost always it is

So I will ask again, why isn’t there data to back it? With the amount of data collected via hospitals and police it would show clear spikes in certain things?

This. Like the ‘the periods of women living in close proximity synchronise’. Has been studied often, and no data backs it up.

I read yrs ago that Sussex or Essex police drafted in extra police when it was a full moon. A&E's are also busier at these times.
Just saying

Busier in terms of more patients turning up? By how much?

It’s a thing!!! I have worked in education for decades and was always told when the class got more feral “it’s a full moon” and I was always skeptical’

Now I’m head of behaviour - and he’s, they are my busiest days 🤣

I would have no idea it’s a full moon I only know because I sense it and check and it always is

Not overrun but definately a few more mh issues

I worked in a call centre years ago and it was a standing joke that the nutters came out of the woodwork customers were more "challenging" when there was a full moon.

The joys of working with the general public.

My friend did her undergraduate dissertation on this (because we worked in hospitals where some staff would blame behaviours on the full moon) and she found zero evidence to support it.

Friends husband works in hospital for criminal insane and apparently a lot of the patients get worse when it happens

It is a theory I have heard, but I wasn't being entirely serious in repeating it. The "obviously" clearly didn't do as much heavy lifting as I thought...

ETA: If there was anything to this theory, it would be about when the moon is at apogee or perigee.