Or do other people also get Heat Wave Anxiety?

[Yamyam13]

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying heat like this less and less and have noticed that actually, when the atmosphere is so hot and heavy like this, I feel quite anxious.
Anyone else??

It's awful. Feels so stuffy and I get headaches.

32 degrees today here in London.

People saying it's delightful, are you in the SE or up north where it's cooler?

Because I dont understand how being hot and sweaty is enjoyable.

I am hoping for a fantastic thunderstorm like never before after the heat wave...

What really gets me is the competitive heat mentality of people who like heat. Some people really struggle with extreme heat, if we are vocal about it, we are told to "get a grip" etc.

But in winter when people are freezing cold and have no way of warming themselves up it's acceptable to show empathy. I love winter, rarely feel the cold but I'd never go round saying "the colder the better" especially when people are struggling with being cold.

I don't cope well in the heat and find it oppressive. I'm sure if was sat around a pool it would be different but I work in an office with no air conditioning which is unbearable on a hot day.

I do feel anxiety and actually guilt with the heat - it feels like climate change staring me in the face. It feels wrong to enjoy it. Looking at the already scorched grass in the knowledge there is no rain coming in the next week and thinking of the wildfire risk.

I don’t like summer clothes

What do you normally wear @marie3877?

I If you wear jeans/trousers wear a thin cotton or linen pair. If you wear dresses but hate your legs wear a maxi dress. If you hate strappy/sleeveless tops wear a cotton short sleeved shirt or T-shirt. There is bound to be something you can wear.

I love it! I hate being cold and grey skies. How odd that we equate heat with us all dying...I am not a climate change denier at all but heatwaves are nothing new.
As a kid...a good 40 years ago, there was always scorched grass and a hose pipe ban in the summer.

There is an end in sight though? End of next week is rainy / cloudy and 17 -19 degrees. Most likely going to get cooler from there.
Jeez. We’ve had a couple of weeks of warm weather and people are freaking out on here. Nothing more than previous years I’ve experienced!

Get yourself to water. Dive in and don’t get changed. Dry in the shade. Jump in again. Repeat. Take an air conditioned car ride home. It’s really not that bad!

I haven’t read the full thread as I guessed the many “it’s hotter where I am and I love it/hate it/get a grip” responses. j will go back and filter for the others

I don’t take the heat well but changes is clothing and better prep in recent years have helped. The reason I commented is that my almost ten year old at dinner today described essentially heat anxiety. She is very lithe abbd typically seems entirely at home in the heat but today she talked about feeling wired and like she couldn’t settle. It didn’t present like a nice emotion and she couldn’t find words so she emoted by big eyes and a sort of clenched fist motion.

I do. This weather makes me feel extremely unwell. So when I see that the forecast is for more of this I feel anxious because I know Im going to feel awful all day/night until it cools down.

I was and I still absolutely loath it hot like this in the UK.

In Texas when it went below freezing an 11 year old boy froze to death.

Would you tell that family 'In Antarctica they would have coped, get a grip!"

Different countries are used to different weather and have infrastructure to deal with it.

In addition these climate events aren't normal so are causing anxiety.

I’m not a fan of the heat but do use it as an opportunity to do less, which has its benefits.

I love hot weather and moved to Australia to get more of it. My ideal temperature here is 35 plus. However anything over 30 in London was horrible unless I could get into Tooting Bec Lido, and that was a massive hassle! Working and commuting in London was tough too, it's so humid and there isn't enough aircon.

I don’t mind it if I don’t have to do much but sadly I have to get on a train and then a tube for 90 minutes each way which is horrible in the hot.

Yeah it 100% gives me climate apocalypse anxiety.

And for people who don't live near "water" suitable to dive into repeatedly, or who don't have an air conditioned car, or who have to work in an office or a stuffy central London flat all day?

Exactly. I'm a pregnant woman with a toddler and a baby. We're in a one-bedroom flat with no air conditioning, no car, no miraculous 'water' to dive into. How privileged to basically think 'just go on a tropical holiday if it's not, nbd'

*hot

I normally don’t but I have something I need to do that will involve being outside a lot on Sunday and I’ve been getting really worked up about it.
i used to live in bloody California

Of course heat isn’t that bad if you can spend all day pissing about by a lake. But it’s oppressive and difficult when you have to deal with small children, go to work, take public transport, wear a work uniform etc. And your plan doesn’t really help with the heat overnight either which is the worst part for me.

@Silverswirl I live in London. There’s definitely no water for me to dive into and even if there was I wouldn’t have time, I’m either at work or rushing about after kids/dog. Plus my car has no air conditioning and I don’t have a garden.

Exactly! Pretty sure my boss would be totally fine with me skipping off to dip in and out of a lake all day... travelling in my non-existent air conditioned car...

meanwhile, in the real world, I am firing up my laptop for another day of working in my stuffy flat....

@Calledakaren

we’ve been having heatwaves since time began , often longer and hotter than what we are experiencing now.

and actually this year until now we’ve had a shit summer weather wise - unseasonably cold and cloudy.

so I’m not gonna get too worked up about climate change based on this weather

@Annoymousy

we’ve been having heatwaves since time began , often longer and hotter than what we are experiencing now.

and actually this year until now we’ve had a shit summer weather wise - unseasonably cold and cloudy.

so I’m not gonna get too worked up about climate change based on this weather

I don’t really get why heat would make me anxious. It can be uncomfortable but I’m happy in the garden in the shade with a book and I’m lucky enough to work where there’s air con.

I get anxious in the winter worrying about getting to work if it snows, driving on black ice etc!