Anyone else dread the clocks going back

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I hate the long dark nights
Go in to work in the dark
Come home in the dark
I find myself getting quite anxious and low as the weeks go on
Try and embrace the cosy element but I miss daylight
I am the grinch I know

I moaned my way through this summer. It was too hot and I had no energy to do anything. The garden nags at me in the summer and it just feels like there's more to be done, or make me feel bad for not having done it because it was too damn hot to spend any time out there. Each to their own. The world would be a boring place if we all liked the same things.

I can’t wait. A bit more light in the morning is FAR more important to my mental health than an hour less in the evening.
Whatever we do with the clocks evenings are dark but at least this way we can do the school run in daylight most of the year.

I love it. I suffer with anxiety like other posters so being able to shut the door, draw the curtains and light candles and snuggle under a blanket and watch a movie or do craft is heaven. I tend to look forward to the clocks going back and have enjoyed it since I was young, I used to enjoy coming home in the dark from secondary school and the house lit up, warm kitchen, with my mum cooking dinner.

The vast majority of posts complaining about “the clockd going back” are actually complaining about shorter daylight hours in general.
You do realise that’s just a geographic fact? We don’t control our daylight hours.
All that the clock change does is give us an hour more morning light and an hour less evening. Getting daylight in the morning is far more important for SAD, mood and circadian rhythms than it staying light later.

I wish we could have double summer time then we wouldn’t have it getting dark at about 4pm. I hate that.

It's not the clocks going back I hate, it's the cold. I'm a skinny bugger and feel the cold really easily, even when I'm wearing proper winter clothes. Looking forward to spring already.

How many people who like snuggling under blankets etc actually get into the house at 4pm and are able to stay there?

I don't like it being pitch black before I even get ready to leave work, let alone by the time I make it home.

hate it, dont even understand why we still do this in 2018

I love it, because DD can sleep.

I had forgotten. It’s fab news for me as I start work at a ridiculous time of 4am on a Sunday so an extra hour in bed is amazing and much needed.

I hate autumn and winter and dread the clocks going back. I am always cold, even at home with heating on. Can not understand how anyone likes it. I find it hard to motivate myself to go out in the cold and dark to gym classes in the evening and feel trapped at home.

"I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person but it always confuses the hell out of me"

Same.

Why I came on thread. I have an iPhone which I know is SUPPOSED to correct itself I never entirely trust it and feel confused. I have something on tomorrow and need to set alarm for it. If I set alarm today will alarm go off at correct time or if the clock doesn't change will it be going off an hour earlier than it should or an hour later? In which case do I set alarm for hour earlier than I was originally going to?

CANNOT get my head round this stuff!

I also suffer from depression & anxiety disorders, live in Scotland now and am DEFINITELY worse in winter HATE it!

My favourite season is Spring, more light but not too hot.

I hate the winter. I don't like the dark, really appreciate all the lights and sparkle that Christmas decorations bring to the most miserable season.

But worse than the extra hours of darkness is the hideousness that is the cold. Today I've been wearing a long sleeved top, a sweatshirt on top of that, a fluffy top thing from a nightwear section and I still have to have a blanket pulled over the top of me to stop my feet turning into ice blocks. I fear I don't have enough blood circulating (or might be under active thyroid as @U2HasTheEdge has mentioned.

Somewhere equatorial would be better. I LOVE summer and being warm, 21 degrees (the temperature our heating is set at) is the minimum I can bear and if I'm not moving even then, my hands and feet go painfully cold.

I'm with ilovesooty and totopoly et al on this one

Just looked up sunrise and sunset on 21st December. In London it’s 8.03 - 15.53. In Edinburgh it’s 8.41 - 15.39. So there isn’t a huge difference between England and Scotland. Don’t know why a PP blamed Scottish farmers, pretty sure people in the south of England would be unhappy if sunrise was at 9am instead of 8am.

If the clock change was abolished, would we keep winter time or summer time? What’s the point of summer time anyway?!

I actually really look forward to the clocks going back. I love autumn and winter ( apart from Christmas which I think is very overrated).
Scented candles, cosy throws and hot chocolate...can’t beat it.
I also prefer winter clothes....boots, big jumpers, hats and scarves.

I much prefer this time of year, the summer really effected my health and I've not recovered from it, I prefer the dark nights and don't get woken up by the flying shit bags seagulls at stupid o clock. Usually a couple of hours after the pubs closed.

BUT

I'm on a complex number of meds and it's a pain to adjust the times I need to take them for a few days so I dread it for that and I'm really useless at doing the whole preparing thing.

Last year I was admitted to hospital on the day they went back and kept being asked what time various things had happened and it was always followed by "is that the real time or not?" Being ill I'd no idea what the hell they were on about. Worse the hospital clocks didn't go back for two days, and, in the middle of the night scaring the life out of me and other patients (noisy whirring at midnight!) - you'd think they'd update them on the right night at the right time wouldn't you?!

Graphista I’m the same. It takes me weeks to get my head around the change. I have Aspergers and even slight changes in circumstances throw me. I have issues with time/clocks anyway so this really bolloxes me up 😐

I hate it. I don't see it feel cosiness, only darkness and gloom. I want to hibernate until at least the end of February.

I would like to stay on BST all year round. Short days are shit.

I think I should go and live on the Equator.

I already have low energy and a sense of gloom about winter coming. I'm struggling to get up and go and the poor light quality is already affecting me. The clocks changing just makes it worse. I struggle to get warm once I'm cold, we've spent half term holed up with the lurgey and it just sucks. I don't have time for snuggling under blankets and all that crap as I have 2 SEN children and a preschooler, work, school runs, kids activities, cooking, cleaning etc to do. And no DH/DP to share it all with. Life is so much easier when it's warm and light and everyone is well.

Whether the clocks change or not you still get the same amount of daylight. You just get it at a slightly different time of day . I can't see what real difference it makes either way !

Yep me. I'm having enough trouble getting through 24 hours, without the though that I'll have to get through 25 tomorrow

I hate that from next week I'll be leaving work in the dark and cooped up at home all evening. In summer I can get home and let the kids have a good run outdoors to burn off some energy. DS2 really struggles with hyperactivity in winter.

Once turned up for work two hours early as I put my clock forward rather than back .