To wonder if those who love winter have very robust mental health or very happy lives?

[Comedycook]

So I was thinking about this after reading a thread about weather. Lots of posters saying how they loved winter...some even said they love the dark evenings and what really surprised me was the poster who said they loved dark, cold mornings. I assumed everyone hated these!

Now I'm not in a terrible place mentally and I'm not depressed but I do find the dark, rainy, cold days do affect my mood. When the evenings are warm and light I feel so much happier.

I'm really interested in how others don't feel that the winter brings them down and actually enjoy it. Are they naturally happier, more positive type people?

I enjoy winter - I dislike the sun, it prickles my skin. I like getting cozy, and dark mornings make me feel like I’m enjoying a special quiet moment. I love a gentle drizzle that coats your skin and being cozy inside with a fire when you’ve been outside and got a cold red nose and cheeks is the best. I love thé types of food we have in winter - roasts, stews and pies ❤️❤️

For the record, I’d describe my mental health as the opposite of robust tbh!

This thread is weird. Why are people getting so defensive because some people prefer a different season to them?

Yeah I don't think I have particularly robust mental health, it's just different preferences.

😂thank you lol, to the original responder have you considered emigrating to Dubai?

It is weird. Preferring summer to winter and vice versa is very subjective, nothing to do with your mental health status or lifestyle, yet some posters seem to take any comments about preferring the colder, darker season personally.

@Hernameisdeborah exactly.
I'm an autumn/winter person but I don't feel the need to pull apart other peoples reasons as to why they like summer! I just accept we have different preferences 🤷🏼‍♀️

But I am extremely sensitive to the seasons and the weather has a huge impact on my mental health...might not affect everyone but I am.

I don’t think anyone is taking it personally. I find it a bit bizarre, purely because I think I know one single person in real life who prefers autumn/winters. Out of hundreds. I don’t know anyone in real life, who when it’s a lovely sunny day says ‘what a shit day’. And when it’s raining says ‘oh what a lovely day’. It just doesn’t happen.

I do get annoyed when people moan about the ‘searing hot summer’. When it’s shit and rainy and cool for most of the summer and then we go straight in to the miserable, grey, cold.

I also don’t get the appeal of festering under a blanket for 6 months and calling it ‘cosy’. But yes we’re all different!

But I am extremely sensitive to the seasons and the weather has a huge impact on my mental health...might not affect everyone but I am.

But that doesn't mean other people are wrong for liking a different season to you.... not everyone's mood is impacted by the weather.

I love winter.

I love the cold fresh mornings. I hate being too hot in the summer. I love coming out of work and it's dark. I just think of winter as cosiness, being snuggly. I like all the lights lit up in the evenings in Manchester. I just love it haha!

I don't often get depressed or have bad mental health really.

Most people don't talk in those kinds of extremes though.
My preference is autumn/winter but I can also appreciate a nice summers day. I wouldn't walk around saying it's shit but given a choice I'd chose an autumnal day over a really hot sunny one.

I'm very sensitive to the seasons, but have learned to embrace the changes in the year instead of fighting it, so when the days get shorter I embrace hygge and all the seasonal celebrations and eat more and sleep more, then when the days start to get longer again I embrace the long days, more energy (my sleep is usually pretty close to sunrise and sunset) and being more sociable. It helps me to not fight the seasons but move with them instead.

@Comedycook yeah, fair enough, everyone is affected differently ... it's the picking apart of other people's reasons for liking autumn/winter that's going on in this thread, as if it's wrong and crazy not to prefer summer, that I find weird.

I feel very hemmed in when days are long and all the neighbours are out in their gardens. I can never truly relax. Now I barely see anyone and I can truly relax. I think it's 8 pm because it's dark and discover it's 6.30 pm and it feels like I've been gifted extra time. I love relaxing indoors and not feeling I have to be out

The weather is so much more interesting too

Sure, but for other people (who are susceptible to sunburn and heatstroke, or whose sleep is significantly impaired by shorter nights), Summer can have a significant impact on their mental and physical health.

Different people, different places, different challenges, different preferences.

Loving the grey, rainy weather at the moment. My mood is up, I am happier in my skin and now the clocks have gone back is just the icing on the cake. Different strokes for different folks. Why people cannot just accept that is literally beyond me.