Anyone else dread the clocks going back

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I hate it.
I loathe the long dark evenings. As the mornings get darker it means I go to and from work in the dark and no natural light in my workplace.
By February my energy levels and mood will have gone to shit
The nearer I get to menopause the worse it seems to get
Apols for the pity party
Anyone else join me on the
"No it isn't cosy it's fucking miserable " bench

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Mine is chronically low though!

I actually thought they went back next Sunday for some reason, was not until my DD told me it was tonight that i realised! I personally love this time of year, have Halloween which my son is very excited for this year, then my DD Birthday, then Bonfire night, then the run up to Christmas! Perfect!

Love the dark evenings.
Absolutely loathe summer and the bloody seagulls keeping me awake till 11pm.
Sweaty nights, sticky clothes stuck to me , suncream ( yuck ) , irritable hot children etc.
Absolutely grinning at the fact the clocks go back and it's set to only be 10c tomorrow. Bring it on

Roll on Summer.

Thanks Re vit d answers. I'm vegetarian and unfortunately those capsules aren't Questionablemouse but I'll try and find veggie ones and maybe have a chat with nurse at gp surgery.

Parent tip/hack - don't put your clocks back till the kids have gone to bed, then enjoy one extra hour of peace. Continue with clock change on Monday

Give it a week or two and it will still be like the middle of the night at 7am. By mid-winter, most people will commute to and from work in total darkness. In contrast, keeping to summer time would be more efficient for short days by at least allowing children to travel home in the light and be able to do things like football classes on the school field, rather than stuck indoors. Going a whole working week without a jot of daylight is awful. I used to really notice a difference in being based in a main block or a portacabin where I could get a few minutes of daylight.

I'm done on cosy already. I'm sitting in my bloody cosy jumper, with sweaty, smelly armpits and a cold drippy nose and toes. I'd rather have all of my body being consistently hot than mismatching or veering from one extreme to the other.

The short daylight combined with an excess of murky, perma-gloom days are awful for mood. The fantasy of sharp clear frosty days is all too rare (I'm happy with those as I get some sunlight!)

"Give it a week or two and it will still be like the middle of the night at 7am"

I know, but I do really appreciate the tiny break in the bleak mornings before proper winter kicks in. Just a few weeks of light before everything is frozen for months. My poor sad brain really looks forward to it.

I am not looking forward to the gloom. I love autumn, but bare trees and dark mornings just fill me with dread

(sorry, not helping )

On the ‘we fucking hate summer’ thread nobody who liked summer was allowed to comment and post. I got very told off for pointing out most of the time summer here is shit and the cold dreary weather lasts much longer.....

I'm one of the summer haters from the thread a PP referred to earlier. I love autumn and spring but don't like dark evenings. Long hours of daylight are the one thing I love about summer and necessary for me looking after my allotment in growing season when its too hot in the middle of the day.

It had rained a lot here recently but the trees are stunning in autumn leaf and it is still very mild (I was wearing Birkenstocks a few days ago and am not putting them away yet).

Anyone else join me on the No it isn't cosy it's fucking miserable

Me, OP. I can't begin to say how much I loathe it.

I live in Scotland and this is one of the things I hate most! Doesn't get properly dark till after midnight and then the sun rises at half three in the morning... can't stand it lol

Oh I love it! Not now I’m an oldie but I used to love going home doing the walk of shame after a night out and it was light already

It isn't cosy it's fucking miserable could be my motto

I don't mind winter, but I dislike the clock changes (both of them) because they mess up my fragile sleep patterns. I find it a real effort to get into a sensible routine and if I do, the clock change ruins it.

PS: On the other hand, I think BST year-round would be terrible. Getting up in the dark sucks and it would mean a lot more of that. Leaving work in the dark I find not so bad, I'm already up and awake by then.

There’s only a week of respite though then we go back to getting up in the dark. I don’t think we get any benefit from the clocks changing. Still getting up on the dark from November and it’s awful.

However, an extra hour of light in the evening would be amazing and have such an impact.

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These might work for you, @Graphista

No sorry I love it. I suffer with anxiety and it makes me feel safer and ‘wrapped up’. I sleep better, I rest and relax better and I’m an introvert so very happy to spend whole days at home. The summer always makes me feel like you have to be out and ‘making the most of it’. Yuck.

Totally agree with this. So glad it’s this time of year again!

I hate it too, get v (clinically) depressed, it's worse from when the clocks change to Christmas. For me it feels as if I'm carrying the world in my shoulders, get very anxious and flat, cry loads, eat crap, and sleep for Britain. I've tried everything, big doses of vitamin D, numerous lightboxes and wake up alarms, exercise, anti- depressants, mindfulness, but little helps. Most of the time I CBA to do anything. Having an aromatherapy massage every week helps me to feel a bit pampered. The only thing that works for me is a winter holiday in the Canaries-within a few hours my mood lifts, I'm laughing and enjoying life again. I slowly pick up after Christmas and by early March, I usually wake up one morning and ping, I'm back to normal. Then I have a manic few weeks of energy and enthusiasm and get by on a couple of hours sleep per night. I try hard to go with the flow but it's very hard if you get SAD quite severely.
for all of us special ones.

I'm fine with the evenings being dark. What I struggle with is waking up in the morning when it is still dark, so whatever helps with that suits me better.

Where us puny humans happen to set the hands on a clock won't change the amount of available daylight in any given 24 hour period.

All we are doing is returning to GMT, the global standard by which everybody on the globe uses to set their clocks. It is measured on the prime Meridian at Greenwich when 12 noon is at the moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. Which seems to me to be rather logical. It is slap bang in the middle of the available amount of light that day.

I hate it mainly due to the dark early nights but also as I have 2 early rising young children.

Mind you, I've just gone into my 3 year olds room and said the clock is broken and it’s still night and to go back to sleep and they have!

Ugh crap nights sleep
But it's a gorgeous day here so am going to get out and get the sun on my face
Until it gets dark at 5

I had a lovely lie-in till "9:30" this morning, then got up and turned my clock back to 8:30 .

I used to suffer really badly from this. It's improved by huge doses of vitamin D, really good outdoor wear, and an increasing interest in my garden.

I have worked out my planting so that there is something to grow or something to do for about 10 months of the year. Currently I still have some things in bloom, and I am in the process of tidying up the garden for its winter sleep.

November is hard, and I have nothing good to say about it, December I get through because of Christmas. January used to send me into an utter depression, but now I treat the New Year as a fresh start, and I tend to use it as a time to clean and reorganise the house, and I challenge myself to do at least one new thing, no matter how small.
By February, the light is returning to the world, Candlemas/Imbolc, the end is in sight.
Trying to embrace the natural wheel of the year and letting it guide my own actions has made such a difference, as has getting outside as much as possible

Love the long dark winter nights. Feel safe and cosy.

Hate summer. It's hot and noisy.