Yeah, been feeling pretty low as well. In my case, it always manifests as anxiety, which leads to insomnia, and then a drop in mood. Always the same goddam pattern.
For me, it’s my neighbourhood deteriorating. This was a quiet village 20 years ago. Now, we’ve had the local woods partly hacked down to make way for a new estate. And at the other end of the village they are building another estate that, frankly, is more like a small town. During the summer, kids from the first estate got into the woods (what’s left of them) and caused mayhem. They’ve ruined them. They smoke weed in there, ride round on motorbikes, and even vandalise the trees!! Last week a shopping trolley from the local Tescos was dumped in there. A gang of them were told off by the farmer, and set fire to one of his barns (just behind my house) in revenge. The traffic gets worse every day. Last night I was woken at 3 am by the screeching and exploding of boy racer engines (I can hear them right now). When the second new estate is finished, and the houses and flats have all been occupied, there will be even more kids in the woods, and even more cars. Instead of looking forward to the spring, like I used to, I now dread it. In the winter, the cold and darkness keeps people indoors. Those kids setting fire to that barn really scared me. They didn’t give a shit that my house was near by and that the fire might have spread. I feel more and more exposed here. My house is quite remote, and there have been quite a few kids walking past it at night yelling and shouting. A few neighbours have also had cars vandalised. I feel like it’s a matter of time before we have a break in.
Ah well, shut up NIMBY, you don’t matter. Just suffer in silence - and keep paying your taxes.