Does feeling cold make you feel uncomfortable or depressed?

[Maggie900]

This is probably going to sound silly but the cold is making me feel miserable.

Whenever I google it, it comes up with SAD or less day light hours as the cause but that’s not what causes it for me.

I was just sitting on the sofa and thought why do I feel so miserable, walked to the kitchen and my skin felt sore, like chap and I just felt very uncomfortable. I then noticed somebody had completely turned the heating off. It honestly causes me to be so depressed when I’m cold, is this normal, do others feel this severely about the actually feeling of being ‘cold’?

My DH and kids don’t get it! I’ve spent the entire winter working from home and have had to have the heating on high, wear multiple layers, cover myself in a fleecy blanket and use a hot water bottle most days. The cold makes me feel ill, like I’m getting flu. It also makes me feel like crying.

Glad I’m not the only wuss!

I’ve had private tears of my thyroid which have come back well within healthy range, and have been taking iron supplements, so I think this is just the way I am!

I grew up in a warm house but feel like OP

Totally agree with you OP! Being cold is the worst!!!! My skin reacts really badly to the cold - I’ve found E45 Bath - a bath oil - really helpful. Not only does the bath warm me up, but the oil literally makes my skin go “ahhhh”. It’s angry otherwise.
A PP talked about cold making your body tense up - and that’s so right. That makes you in distress - and of course affects your mood.
I wear vests almost year round. Can that help you. Get long ones (H&M do longer length) that tuck in and don’t let and bare skin show upon bending or whatever. I also swear by my wheat bag - one of those things you microwave - like a hot water bottle but no water.
We have a woodbur er which is gorgeous and a really lovely kind of heat, but I hate having it on in the evenings because when I leave the room I freeze! Ugh. Cold is shit!

It makes me feel stressed and anxious before I realise I'm cold a lot of the time. I just tense up all over

I fucking hate being cold. Ugh.

It's not just the cold, it's the lack of sunlight that's depressing. I used to feel an awful sense of doom when the clocks went back, like a cloak of darkness.

Yes, cold and dark definitely can affect the mood. My mum is an example of that. Every winter feeling more depressed and just looking forward to spring. I actually quite like winter however indoors I need heating on high! Can't stand cold houses

Same here @MagdasMadHouse - you don’t realise immediately do you!!?? 😣

My heating is on 22 every day. If I am cold it feels like hell. Im a very cold person and I understand that everyone is different however I also sweat uncontrollably at work as it is about 26 and im on my feet all day. If im cleaning the house then the heating must go off otherwise I’ll be sweating hot 🥵 but yes I’m very sad when im cold 🥶 normal sitting around must be 22* and I’ll be happy

I know I just start getting a bit short/snippy with anyone else who's there like my backs up? Then I put a jumper on or the heating on and I'm nice again

Im agog at people who walk around half undressed and say they feel hot.
How?
House is 16 degrees. DS is in pyjama shorts, tshirt and barefoot. I am in jeans, jumper and socks. Both comfortable. My grandmother would say the house is freezing, I find hers stifling. We are all different.

Comfortzone, are you me??

DF had an overactive thyroid (too hot, too angry), and before that had money worries (no money for heating). He also had a weird feeling that wanting to be physically comfortable was a bit pathetic, so having the house a bit cold was virtuous.

Anyway, if Im cold in the house I can’t get going, and if I can’t get going I start feeling miserable. So I put the heating on if a jumper isn’t doing enough for me!

We have a small but very old house which is cheap to heat...

This morning I had the opposite and got hot. Like, hot flush in first hot sunshine of the year whilst wearing thermals and a winter coat type hot. So apparently being hot makes me feel sick now. Basically any variation of heat and I become a total wimp!

I reckon I only a 1 degree happy place, between 19.5 degrees and 20.5 degrees or I am miserable

I don't have any medical issues and grew up in a warm house but I can't bear being cold indoors. Outside is ok if I'm moving around but being cold at home is just miserable. Just the thought of having to sit bundled up like the Michelin Man in a cold house makes me tense up.

@kowari

Im agog at people who walk around half undressed and say they feel hot. How? House is 16 degrees. DS is in pyjama shorts, tshirt and barefoot. I am in jeans, jumper and socks. Both comfortable. My grandmother would say the house is freezing, I find hers stifling. We are all different.

Thats what Im asking Why are some people boiling and some freezing at the same temperature. I actually cant stand the heating on high, it makes me feel ill.

I need layers rather than a hot environment

@Templetree I think children and teens can run hot because of metabolism and activity level. Temperature or number of layers for that temperature can be just what you are used to as well, I think you can adapt to a degree if you try.

yes. This is why WFH is so good. I never have air con blowing over me anymore and can work in a toasty room.

I've been feeling like I've been going mad all winter working at home in a basically unheated loft. When it warmed up, bliss! Wrist and ankle warmers, and a microwave heat pack are the best things, but even with them I still feel wretched. I think it's normal.

Yes it's miserable. WFH is awful because DP doesn't want to have the heating on in the day.

Basically any variation of heat and I become a total wimp!

Really understand this, I think my internal thermostat is broken. I can remember even as a child complaining of being too cold and already having layers on, and my mum saying the heating was on and they were warm, and my answer was "I'm inside cold"
I still get that now, but I also get randomly too hot (worse now I've started experiencing hot flushes) but how I feel is sometimes in no way related to the environment.
The heating can be on full blast, I'm in bed under 2 duvets, electric blanket on, fleecy jamas and I still feel cold "inside" almost like running a temperature. It's a different feeling to being cold because the environment is cold, and it makes me so miserable because I just cannot warm up. The only way is a hot bath, and sometimes even that doesn't work.
Going the other way makes me just as miserable, stripped off, windows wide open with minus temperature outside and I'm still too hot, cold flannel on my head.
I can cope with feeling cold or hot because my environment is cold or hot, but when I'm "Inside hot/cold" I just can't seem to sort it out and it really doesn't matter what the environment is like around me.
Happens more when I'm tired, hormonal, and I've had blood tests that have been normal so I guess I'm just weird!

Hot water bottle. My husband is a miser when it comes to heating, a hot water bottle makes a whole world of difference

[quote kowari]**@Templetree I think children and teens can run hot because of metabolism and activity level. Temperature or number of layers for that temperature can be just what you are used to as well, I think you can adapt to a degree if you try.[/quote]
Its not a matter of trying
I stand to lose fingers/ hand if my Reynauds progresses .

By 'you' I meant people in general, people can acclimatise to different temperatures, not all people. I don't know how the Reynauds works. Two of my fingers go white and lose feeling but only if it is cold cold, not in the house cold like 12 degrees if the heating isn't on.

My DH doesn’t believe when I say it hurts my skin. I hate being cold and wrap up and put the heating on. I have been known to sit it the car with the heaters on high to get that blast of hot air to warm through and untense. I do have hypothyroidism and raynauds. I just don’t think my body works at colder temperature.