to hate Spring

[crochetmonkey74]

Ok this is a really unpopular opinion but I have had it since I was a child.
I hate the first signs of Spring that everyone loves. It makes me feel unsettled and sort of anxious about having all the extra hours.
I have no idea where it comes from or why I feel like it. I thought it was just a fear of change- but it doesn't happen with the onset of Autumn and Winter- I love those seasons.
I don't hate the Summer or find it uncomfortable- I enjoy all the normal Summer stuff- I'm not lonely and I don't struggle to fill my time, but the weeks when the birds start waking me up in the morning and the nights draw out, those spring days just give me this hollow pit of the stomach feeling. No one in my real life can relate- at work the mantra is 'Spring is coming Thank God' - anyone here know what I mean, does anyone else have this?

there I was in my well worn winter clothes, feeling slightly shabby against all the 'freshness' and a bit too hot.

This was me yesterday! And I felt a sudden overwhelming pressure to get the garden sorted (sweep the artificial lawn, dump last year's grow-bags, sort out the storage unit). I bloody hate garden maintenance but needs must with a 3 year old.

No I find it depressing !! Autumn is by far my favourite season.

I felt this way when winter started this year for the first time ever. When the clocks changed I actually started to feel mentally suffocated by the darkness, it was a crushing feeling and I have no idea where it came from. I just had this overwhelming sense of dread and not wanting it to be dark at all. Really pleased it’s spring now, loving the light, flowers and bees.

I love Spring and Autumn. Next up is winter. Always delighted with a cool rainy summer. It's not a popular opinion but I hate being hot. And those everlasting days of summer are a but too long for me! Love being able to shut the curtains, and thus the world out, at 4pm in winter.
Like a previous poster, I felt a bit hot and shabby yesterday, in well worn winter clothes.
What I really love is a lovely sunny late October!
But Spring is fine, and pretty. I do feel that melancholy a bit though.

I try and see the good in all seasons, think the start of Autumn (September) is my favourite cause of all the new beginnings. However, I do have mixed feelings about Spring. I love the longer days, the possibilities, the blossom etc. But, my Mum died in March (20 years ago today), and my MIL died in April (7 years ago this year) and a very good friend of mine died in April (8 years ago this year). Unfortunately it will always be a little sad. I also get the feeling of wanting to stomp on daffodils, I hate them. When my Mum was in hospital there were lots of daffodils on the drive there and its just a horrible reminder. All other Spring flowers are fine though, I love tulips

I love spring - but Christmas carols send me into a pit of despair, no idea why.

Could it be being woken up early?

As a PP said I pretty much enjoy all the seasons these days, although late winter - early Jan to mid February is only rescued by Burns night and the thought of spring,

I love spring. Always have- it always feels like new year to me.
I absolutely hate December and January though.

Been thinking about this more, today is s beautiful day here, so I think its a fear of missing out/guilt thing. I like being at home and pottering, so I feel like I should be outside, getting loads done when it's nice, so there is a sense of guilt/shame that I'm not outdoors and making the most of the weather. In the Winter, even when it's nice as it's cold you are only expected tobe out for a few hours...so weird how we set such stupid rules for ourselves...this thread has really made me think.

@RoseHarper feel exactly the same, it's a beautiful day here and I feel like I should be out in it. My dd has ASD and likes being at home and she doesn't want to do anything today. I feel guilty for not making the most of the day. Find it much easier being at home when it's rainy!

YABU! Spring is my favourite season. These past few days of sun have done wonders for my mood!

I know that feeling. I hate summer and all that comes with it. So from the end of February I have this awful tension building because I know spring is coming and more light and more warmth and it will lead to summer. It's too much for me. Too bright, warm and too much of other people. I keep my feelings to myself though.
I'm aware this makes me sound like a joyless weirdo but you should see me vibrate with happiness come September.

@ChurchlightJane ooh love September!! The sun makes me feel depressed, I'm a weirdo too !

@YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer

Its weird but Spring always brings this weird melancholy feeling to me. I've never understood it or talked about it with anyone.

Finally someone that feels the same way about spring as I do lol

I can’t quite put my finger on why Spring brings up these feelings in me but I hate it.
I hate summer too as it’s unbearably hot where I live and I hate the heat. and so many people are doing summer family vacations and I haven’t had one of those
in decades so it stirs up weird feelings as well

@Liv999

I'm exactly the same, I think it's because I know summer is on the way which I detest even more than Spring, I really start to feel down this time of year, I absolutely love when we get around to Sept again and the evenings start drawing in, most people think I'm crazy

@Liv999 If you’re crazy so am I cause I feel the same way about spring and summer. I’m dreading summer already and as much as I hate to wish my life away I can’t wait til the fall. 😝

I struggle with spring because I basically have seasonal affective disorder (the less common type where summer heat and brightness makes me feel dreadful) so the thought of all that starting again for another year makes me feel anxious.

I think if you're someone who loves heat and summer spring can be tough because it takes so long to warm up and it takes really a surprisingly long time for much to grow in the average garden.

I took up gardening many years ago to help with my dread of summer and it's been a huge success. I look at the sun shining and think how much my beloved plants will enjoy it and that makes everything better. I can almost look forward to summer because it's the growing season. On a bad day though I still want to deck people who say "Isn't it a lovely day?" Or who describe 30 degrees as "glorious weather" when almost everyone admits they are actually finding it unpleasantly hot.

I find Spring a bit of a shock to the system after the dragging dark months of Jan & Feb.
Feel like I’m blinking in the sunlight and feeling a bit fragile and anxious, like a baby chick .

It’s the season I’m most likely to be ill, too, although that’s got a bit better since I started taking high dose vitamin D a few years ago.

It’s definitely my least favourite season. Nothing beats the beauty and atmosphere of Autumn!

In my country of birth (Eastern Europe - so also we have all 4 seasons) we call this "spring tiredness" or "spring fever". Lots of people have it and there is a biological reason for it related to the body's inability to adapt quickly enough to the stark change in season. Your circadian rhythm is out of sync, melatonin production has to rise because of the light so you feel sleepier, you don't have enough vitamin D, bugs and viruses are plentiful so you're likely to catch sth, hay-fever being triggered again will make you tired, almost of these combined will cause this. Doctors recognize it as a real thing so you're not alone at all.

I think in the UK we're so desperate for sunshine, we don't want to say anything remotely negative about it getting warmer.

You are not alone OP. First day back at school in September I feel renewed and happy. I love winter and detest the summer. Often too warm to sleep, trying to find shade constantly, the constant pressure to be out because it's sunny, always too hot in the car, kids seem to be supercharged and don't want to go to sleep etc

God I love spring, saying goodbye to the long winter is such a relief for me. It's not too hot but just seeing a bit of blue sky and birds singing in the trees makes me feel optimistic and fresh. My favourite season by far, closely followed by autumn then a tie for summer and winter. Each to their own 😊

Spring feels like the trickster to me, I know, I know. But hear me out.

Winter, does what winter should do. It's cold, wet, grey, with sprinklings of blue skies and frost. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Summer, long days, mostly decent weather. Has its moments as expected, this is the UK after all. But overall summer comes along, surprises us with its heat here and there then fucks off.

Autumn, leaves look pretty. Starts off fairly pleasant but quickly moves into the expected cold, wet weather that brings on the urge to snuggle on sofas and drink cuppa.

But Spring, well Spring is a tricky beast. Will it be warm today or now? Yesterday was 4C in the morning during school drop off. Big coats were out and we were shivering. By school pick up it was 18 degrees and the kids were sweating. I mean WTF is that!! Pick a weather and stick by it for at least 24 hours you bloody useless season!! Lighter evenings, maybe. Unless we chose to rain endlessly and then its miserable and dark. Those cute flowers we enjoy, now trampled under a sheet of freezing rain. Spring is like winter the second, followed by the summer prequel, then winter the return before finally allowing us a glimpse of what summer could be.

Except 2020, Spring really took the piss out of us all then. "Oh, you've all just been told to stay the fuck at home. Cool, cool......bring on the unusually long heatwave! Enjoy that muthafuckers on your one daily walk! Mwah ha ha ha 😈"

@bumblingbovine49

I dislike autumn way more though. The drawing in of the nights fills me with a sense of impending doom

Me too

And me. The longest day was my mum’s birthday and it was so apposite because she was a summer day in human form. I hate it when it’s over and we’re on the downward half of the cycle. I absolutely hate it when it’s dark before tea time.

I hate spring/summer. I suffer from hayfever from start to finish, I hate the longer nights as it means it is so much busier at work until later, I live in a touristy area so there are lots more people around (I hate large groups of people), I have a phobia of wasps and heat gives me panic attacks. Every customer at work says thank god spring is nearly here and I just can't wait for Autumn again.

I do like the lighter nights and not hours and hours of darkness but I find spring quite wet and cold, yeah we get the sunny days like today which make me want to go in the garden but when I do there's a cold wind.
Spring is nice to look at through the window of a centrally heated house.

I love spring. But I think we all have a point in the year that make us feel a bit down. For me it's just after Christmas around new year when i reflect on the year before, and worry about what things will be like by the time next Christmas comes around. Will we all still be here, alive and well? Spring is a new beginning too so maybe it's a similar sort of thing.

I love spring and summer. Like many on the thread I hate the winter months and long for the lighter nights and warmer weather.

There was a really good support thread running for those that suffer from SAD in winter, I think it was in the mental health topic. Maybe that’s something someone would want to start for SAD that affects those in spring/summer?