Does anyone else find this time of year unsettling?

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Every year at this time I feel out of sorts and unsettled. This feels more like new year to me than actual new year, always has done.

I like autumn and winter, and in a month’s time i’ll be fine. Just hate this changeover period. I don’t know what to do with myself :(

I’ve felt like that all week! Like I’m waiting for something. Really unsettled and a bit ‘meh’ about life. I’ve actually annoyed myself as I work termtime and so it’s my last week off with dc’s. I think it’s just the changing season. I like autumn. I like the run up to Christmas. But I do feel a bit sad about the passing of time. I feel like this at New Year too though.

It's Simon Cowell probably. Out with the summer breeze, in with the cheese.

Every year. I think it’s residual new school/university year anxiety. I’ve never grown out of it.

Yep.

Could have written both these posts myself.

Not sure what we do about it, although I think the usual self care stuff helps - healthy eating and exercise etc.

I love September, but I do not have school age children and 'back to school' to contend with any more.

IdahoJones you can avoid Mr Cowell, in fact I hope you do.

Not necessarily unsettled but a bit melancholy now the days are getting shorter and summer is at an end.

I feel the same. I put it down to being tired balancing work with the kids off school and wanting some routine back.

I always get a ‘September’ feeling. This year no different as DS1 who is also my baby goes off to uni. I like September as I see it as a new start but it is also unsettling.

This is the best time of year Planning for new beginnings: school and uni. Autumn berries, conkers, harvesting stuff from the garden and tidying up, cooler misty mornings. Love all the orangey colours

I always feel unsettled for the last week of the summer holidays. I'm a teacher and it feels like a really, really long "Sunday feeling".

This year I took dd2 camping which has been a good distraction. We came home on Thursday so only had the weekend really to feel miserable about going back to work.

This time next week I'll be back to feeling fine and happy. We'll be back in our routine, I'll have met all of my classes, no more 'meh' feeling.

It’s weird.

We often get warm weather in September so it is hot just when the shops think we are in the north pole.

I like proper autumn. Falling leaves. Not this fake end of summer

Do an Autumn clean and clear out.

It's what I do. Seems to set me up for winter.

Yes same here. All the school changes, new teachers, friends etc.

Mozart we did that today to try and help.

Me too. I feel really flat every September. I think it's pre-winter dread coupled with the feeling that another summer has passed in what seems like the blink of an eye.

Oh yes MilkIt the waiting for something feeling. I’m glad (sort of) I’m not alone feeling this way. I do love September after about the first week, it’s just these last days of summer and the very obvious turning of the season.

I suffer terribly from SAD and at this time of year I just dread it coming.
I think I probably cope ok when it's full on winter, but the weird waiting for it makes me really anxious.

I wonder if it isn't something quite deep in our DNA? After all, what is now Halloween used to be the start of the new year in the Celtic calendar - and the fact that the academic year starts in September is to do with agricultural cycles.

(I always get a 'new beginnings' feeling in September, too.)

Urgh, I hate it too, the impending doom of a long winter approaching!
It’s also my birthday so I’m a year older which is a bit depressing.
Roll on March/April!!!

No, I'm the opposite. I find summer holidays and the lack of routine very unsettling. I find September the most reassuring month of all.

In ayurveda - Indian medicine - September is considered a high-stress month because of the switch in seasons, from warm to cooler, from dry to wetter, and from calmer to more windy. It is factored into how they treat patients.

That’s interesting Reanimated, it does feel like some deep seated melancholy - if that doesn’t sound too dramatic! And AFistful that’s also very interesting.

Definitely an odd time of year.

Not quite Autumn when the weather gets colder and we dig out our jumpers but often not quite hot enough to be in shorts.

Saying that, I love winter when I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark and shut out the world at 4pm with the fire on 🔥

I absolutely have this. My birthday is in a few days so I think I’ve always attributed this feeling to anticipating that but now I’ve heard you all have the same feeling maybe mine’s the same/