To feel sad every year around this time

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I don't know if it because I have the 6 weeks off and then back to school/work and they are another year older, but every year, around this time, I have this overwhelming feeling of sadness/depression

I actually have looked forward to returning to school for a couple of weeks now. Loved today, meeting the new kids, chatting with other staff members and getting back into the groove. A wet miserable dark day in November can drag me down, but today in Greater London it is magnificent!

Me too - I think it's partly because so much change happens at this time of year? I now associate it with when the seasons change.

It gets me thinking of all the times in the past - going off to uni, leaving my parents, moving house and feeling sad and unsettled...

Which leads to thinking about how we're all getting older, the point of life, etc etc.

I love it, I love the autumn leaves, the cosiness as nights draw in and the peace of the kids going back to school. The clothes are better too, summer dressing is a pain!

I love this time of year. I don't really mind any time of year, apart from just after New Year, which is pants.

I love autumn but I always feel really melancholy around this time of year. There’s nothing like a new school year starting to remind me how fast time is passing by, another summer over and gone, days getting shorter, children getting older etc etc I love having the children at home for the summer and I’m always a bit sad when they have to go back to school though not as sad as I would be if I had to homeschool them again

Makes me laugh, people thinking of October as cold mornings and pretty leaves and all cosy - all it does is rain! Grey and wet - yuk. Roll on April/May!!

I used to hate this time of year, but for me it was purely that the kids had to go back to school after the summer break. I hated the monotony of the whole school routine.
During the summer we didn’t have to get up and out the door for a specific time, we didn’t have to abide by any rules and regulations. Didn’t have to worry about homework, uniforms lunches etc.

Although I do actually like Autumn and Winter, I used to feel sad at losing our freedom to do whatever we liked. I would start countdown until half term as soon as they went back!

Am glad now dcs are all adults and out of education, I actually welcome the season changes now!

I hate the fact that summer is nearly over and Christmas Overkill will be starting in less than a month.

Yep and I get it around christmas too

I love the summer, hate when it ends

Same for me OP , absolutely HATE IT ..
and what's to come in the next 6 months ..
it makes me feel extremely anxious tbh ..

Some Christmas things are already out in the shops ( tins of chocs, cards etc)

change of season blues, OP.
It's a thing. I get it from spring going into summer too, oddly enough.
The one time of year that absolutely lifts me up is the winter to spring crossover... once the daffodils are up, I am filled with an optimism I don't know at any other time of year.
I was actually thinking today about that September melancholy that's beginning to set in, even on this hot, sunny day. The trees are like a huge mantel of deep, dark-past-my-prime green. It's a heavy cloak, this dark, earthy green dripping all around me as I walk the dog. It feels heavy, it looks dark, and I know that the next stop is the autumnal foliage leading to winter's bare branches. It always niggles at me this time of year. Maybe more so because I am older and past my own prime. But that's for another thread! I don't want to drag everyone down even further.

@the80sweregreat

I am like this at Christmas : it always makes me cry. I understand how you feel though op

I find christmas hard too tbh. am gonna try a light box this winter.

I do find the end of summer hard, if you associated good times with good weather, and we didn't even get much of that this year!!

maybe lockdown has made it stronger? also the dreaded school routiiiine....argh

@thevanguardsix your post is beautifully written!

I get it in Jan/ Feb, which is for me the worst part of the year.

So don’t have it now but sympathise!

Oh yes, me too, those months seem interminable to me, it's such a slog!

I've got the September blues a little for the first time this year as my little one has just left nursery, we've had a lovely couple of weeks off and are now preparing for starting school and going back to work. I feel compleltely swindled out of a priper summer this year too!

I fully sympathise with anyone who gets the blues at a certain time of year, it can be really tough.

I’m sad that we didn’t get a good summer. Makes autumn especially hard. I’ve barely sat on my sun lounger this year. Had a handful of evenings where we could sit out. But the weather in August has been dire. Endless cloud. So that makes me feel short changed.

September can be quite nice weather wise so I’m trying to get outside as much as possible. I hate the evenings getting darker and I don’t want to snuggle under a bloody blanket drinking hot chocolate, I’m not ill. I’m off to swim in a lake tonight, that’s the kind of thing I want to do in the evening!

Not much you can do when it’s dark at 4pm. I don’t really like running in the dark either.

Also Oct-March is a long time to snuggle under a bloody blanket.
And no Halloween doesn’t make any difference as it’s one rubbish day. See also fireworks and bonfires.

Really dislike the feeling of Summer departed.
Winter in this country is never about cosines, crisp mornings and cuddling up with a bloody hot chocolate..
Reality is that it is dank, dark, overheated in shops which makes the 'cosy' woolies itch and you get ill....and there is the mud, endless mud😥
Roll on 21st December

I only like dark evenings and mornings because I have a 3.5 year old and it makes bedtimes easier!

@Mimilamore

Really dislike the feeling of Summer departed. Winter in this country is never about cosines, crisp mornings and cuddling up with a bloody hot chocolate.. Reality is that it is dank, dark, overheated in shops which makes the 'cosy' woolies itch and you get ill....and there is the mud, endless mud😥 Roll on 21st December

I hate the heating in shops. Nearly as much as I hate the harsh aircon in summer

I hate October-1st January. Hate the days getting shorter and am a Grinch and can't stand Christmas. I also hate Nye!

Agree with @BroccoliFloret - I HATE the late nights. I feel so down - dreading it already

I can sympathise, OP. I actually like this time of year - I prefer it darker and cooler, and like looking forward to Autumn and Christmas. However, I can get extremely low and sad in January and February. I hate those months - cold, wet, dark, miserable...and Summer feels so long away.

Okay this time of year. As others have said, it is more Jan-March that I struggle with.

Same OP. I'm sitting here dreading my son starting back at college tomorrow. Back to the grindstone and nagging him to get out of bed, do his homework etc.