Who feels anxious and low about Spring coming?

[crochetmonkey74]

Since a child, I have always had a dread in my stomach when the nights get lighter, like a creeping feeling of more hours to fill, worry that I'll not have enough to do, or the people to do it with. A sense of ennui that ANOTHER year has passed. It's really strange and no one IRL that I know has it. My life is full of people excited and happy about Spring. I do get that this year particularly we need hope and happiness. I was just curious if anyone else had this Spring dread?

I am a December baby and I also don’t like winter, so not sure it’s related to be honest. My husband is January and he’s the same.

@HereWeGoAgain33

I'm the opposite. I feel low and anxious when winter is coming, and this winter has been especially hard (due to lockdown, obs). When darkness falls before 5pm I feel there's a long dark night ahead, and I hate it.

I can't wait for sunlight and warmer weather, for flowers to come alive again. Every day I feel better that it's light just a minute or two longer.

Apparantly I say to my daughter “look it’s light still!’

Lock down is fine when you can get out in the garden, potter in the garden, pretty flowers brightening everything up, have meals on the patio. But when you work from home and you’re couped up at weekends and evenings too due to shit weather it’s almost unbearable.

I love the smell of Spring approaching and the birds chirping in the lighter evenings. Already excited!

@romany4

I'm a Winter baby. Love Autumn. Absolutely love Winter, knowing Christmas is coming, dark cosy evenings, dark mornings. I sleep much better in Winter.

Spring and Summer is just disrupted sleep due to getting light too early and getting dark late.
Bedroom windows open because it's too hot and then getting disturbed by the noise and the birds bloody tweeting at 4am.
And it seems to go on forever!
DH has bought me noise cancelling headphones for this year as I was getting quite tetchy last Summer with the amount of noise.

Roll on Autumn again!

Are you me?!

@crochetmonkey74 Nope not me ... I am looking forward to the Spring hugely.

Lighter nights, daffs and tulips coming up, fresh bedding plants to plant, warmer weather, shops re-opening, lockdown being lifted (Godwilling!) a daytrip to the beach, a picnic maybe, and the hope of a better life for us all........

I get this in autumn at the anticipation of short days and darkness. Spring is the opposite, a time of hope and joy welling up, sunshine and light and growth! I have SAD, you may have it reversed?

I love all the seasons, autumn is my favourite, just wonderful, but I'm not crazy about the height of summer, too hot and sticky and oppressive. DH comes looking for me to sit outside in the sunshine like a normal person I just find sunbathing so boring, it makes me feel like some sort of dark souled freak that I don't want to sit and roast in the boiling hot sun! I do love spring though, breezy sunny days without the HEAT and HUMIDITY of high summer < not angry, just hot

Oh god. The thought of sunshine. Warmth. The garden in flower. Sitting outside with my morning coffee. BBQs with friends. Late balmy nights drinking wine on the patio and talking shit. Windows open in the house. Shorts T-shirt’s and flip flops....roll on summer.

I totally get it OP. I've always been more of an autumn/winter person tbh. I always feel that spring brings expectations, whereas no one has high expectations of the winter months which I find much more relaxing and in tune with! Once spring has actually sprung I'm ok with it but waiting for its arrival sets me on edge slightly.

I totally get this and I also, thought I was the only one. I know where I am with winter - it's cold, dark and it's okay to stay in. Spring means longer days with everyone going on and on about the lighter evenings and isn't the weather glorious. People make you feel weird if you want to sit indoors when the sun is shining. You're meant to be on picnics and at garden parties and playing rounders in a park somewhere. You have to either host or be at a barbecue or eat "al fresco" at home like a glass of wine like you're in a village in Provence. Urggh.

It's all so complicated and tiring. For me April, May and June are the dullest months of the year, nothing happens. You know where you are with July and August - they're silly and lazy and most people are away on holiday and lovely, comforting Autumn is just weeks away.

It's hard to be like this in a country where most people go rushing outside in shorts and flip flops to light a barbecue if the sun appears behind the clouds.

Easter and all those May bank holidays fill me with anxiety. I feel at home with autumn and winter.

Abracadabra12345

Nice to find someone the same.
Everyone thinks I'm nuts when I start getting excited for Autumn..

@crochetmonkey74 I am you definitely. March and April are so hideous - I just want to hibernate. Definitely the pit of the stomach feeling. I've had some blinding summers too and prefer light nights. But I get genuinely deeply depressed in the spring. I just have to hold out til it's over.

Sorry no ! I love spring
It’s literally my favourite thing

BUT . Christmas makes me sad and weepy

Hmm no I dont get it. I get seasonal effective disorder, the dark and cold makes me depressed. I'm an introvert who loves nature, walks with bluebells etc. But can imagine the hell for hayfever sufferers but otherwise hard to see what not to like with lambs and life blooming.

I get grim and maudlin at New Year about the another year gone thing. But by spring the legthening days have me cheery again. I take a bit of a dip after the longest day, as its all downhill to winter then!
I must just struggle with lack of daylight.

I totally get you OP. Feel the same way. Although I have found that I also get the same feeling as winter comes as I can feel a sense of isolation creeping up! I've always felt a sense of melancholy and uneasiness as the clocks change either way! I'm a sensitive person so things really affect me in a way most people might not relate to. It was interesting reading other people on this thread have a similar emotional reaction to spring!

Spring is amazing it actually makes me quite emotional. Im attaching a lot to it this year. It makes me feel safe and that even though we are dealing with such rubbish, times and seasons keep changing.

I get this too! I feel like I have inverted SAD where I thrive from September to the end of February, but then get agitated and less motivated when the lighter nights and warmer weather come. I like the cosiness of autumn and winter. I can light my candles and put on my fairy lights. I love Halloween, having hot baths, wearing big cosy jumpers. I love Christmas and big pots of stew and snow and crunchy leaves.

This is the only year in all my time on this earth that I have been happy for Spring to arrive though, as I'm hoping as the months progress we may be getting closer to the end of this horrible saga. I'll still be giddy when the hot, sticky, wasp-filled summer days are are petering out though so I can dust off my oversized hoodies again

Interesting. My friend is like this. She doesn't like change much as a rule.
I love each season and get a very nostalgic, warm feeling at the first sense of each one. I love change and hanker for new experiences all the time.

I’m ok with early spring but come may/June is when my mood dips. I hate summer with a passion. I hate light evenings. So much so that I have heavy lined curtains in my living room that I shut at 7pm to create darkness! I then have a cosy lamp on. It does help as apparently it’s the dark that prompts your body to produce melatonin to help you sleep. One of the reasons lots of people have sleep problems in summer. I also have a portable air con in my room. For me summer is something to be endured not enjoyed. I get irrationally annoyed when weather forecasters call 30 degree heat “glorious”. I just count down the days until autumn.

Summer...can't exercise properly if it's too hot, can't sleep, Autumn and Winter I feel more alive , esp on cold winter days . Have more energy. In summer just want to flop. Hate getting my pale skin out too, blue legs! 😐 . I do like Spring though , seeing the lambs and the trees budding, but once we hit June, I would rather wake up in September.

No, but I do feel sort of similar about dark early nights.

Interesting. I usually feel quite optimistic in the spring but I think I might feel about down this year, because it will bring memories of other springs in happier times. For me the pandemic has meant that I am quite lonely and separated from much loved family, so it’s going to feel a but odd.

O you poor thing O P, that's really sad, I'm always regenerated by the sight of the first crocus daring to pop its head out. One on my balcony appeared just yesterday. I hope this year is better for you.

I also feel a bit like that, OP. Although in my case I dread the lighter nights and the heat of summer. My heart sinks on 22 December, it's the inevitable move toward too many days of just blue sky and warmth. I love 22 June because I know that we're gradually moving back towards the autumn, cool weather and evenings drawing in. It makes me feel hopeful