What time of the year do you find most difficult?

[OliveCrab]

Christmas is always a stress.

Summer, I hate summer. Count the days until autumn every year.

It’s changed over the years for me: definitely used to be January. Post Christmas blues, darkness, cold. These days I get more down in the dumps around this time of year - summer’s over, boots and coats on, months of short days and cold ahead. Probably the worst time is when the clocks go back. In January I now feel more like the end is in sight!

October to January

For me February is the beginning of the light and flowers coming back😊

Agreed.

the whole of summer. I live in the SE and don’t cope well with the heat, plus get allergies.
I’d happily fast track from May to September. This is my time of year.

Another thing I find difficult in January and February, is the constant stream of illnesses .

I'm not crazy about January.
My daughter hates Halloween. She's terrified of all the decorations, costumes etc so the whole month of October is difficult.

Winter. I hate it.

Autumn and winter. Already sick of myself and it's not even October yet.

From January 1st until May. I just about cope up until Christmas, after that the rest of the winter is pure torture for me.

Winter.

I’m the same, suffer from SAD, it’s tough. Except this year I’ll be heavily pregnant and due a baby in early Jan, which will be interesting!

I don't like the real height of August - oppressive, exhausting and my garden starts to feel a bit blowsy and tired but it's too hot to get out and tidy it up. Cooking is a bore, the heat makes me really tired and low, then I would start to stress about going back to school and all the work I needed to do.
But really, I like most months. I don't get the dislike for January - I find it clean and optimistic. It gets lighter every day and the sunrises and sunsets can be beautiful.

Start of January. Just a miserable time all round.
May. Because it signals the start of summer which I hate.
September. My birthday which always is a difficult time.
December. Christmas day and NYE. A time for families and couples. Also a time for self reflection. Not great when life isn't going well.

Between now and Christmas. Every bad thing in my life has happened in this period and as much as I try to rationalise it away and keep my spirits up, the 'drawing in of the nights' feels like a portent of doom. In fact even writing the phrase makes my stomach drop. I struggle with Christmas due to sudden and traumatic bereavement at that time. January isn't the best but at least it feels like its heading in the right direction.

Winter, I loathe it. Dark, dank, wet, miserable. It encompasses the faux jollity of Christmas with competitive consumption where people over spend and over consume, and then spend January moaning about it. Fortunately February is short and by March, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

@5128gap 💐💐💐💐

October and November as the nights draw in. I feel low every year. By January I feel hopeful that spring is on the way!

Springtime! I hate it. It makes me feel sad and anxious.

From the first week in November to the first of January. I hate the way we're plunged into darkness at the end of October, when the clocks change. November and December are horrible. Plus I f-ing hate Christmas with a passion. To round it off, my birthday is on 27th December, and I hate my birthday even more (another year older). The first of January is such a relief. From then on the nights are pulling out.

I loathe the heat, but so long as there are no heatwaves I love the summer.

Jan to mid feb. I can’t do anything in the garden (too cold, wet, dark), I hate driving in the dark but have to, and instead of being able to hibernate I have to go to work.

The first couple of weeks of November - 3 'soulmate' dogs died (over a span of 20+ years), my mother died, I had two terminations (not in the same year, obvs), I got married (the first time, it didn't end well). My now DH (the 2nd one) got married to his second wife on the exact day my Mum died, too (this is back in the 80s), and then Mum's birthday rounds the whole thing off. After this hellish couple of weeks, I feel a great sense of relief and start looking forward to Christmas.

Mmm, probably February. It’s my birthday month but both dds have January birthdays, so by Feb I feel a bit celebrated out and thoroughly skint! I can never get half term off work and Easter is still a way off.

however, I don’t really hate it, and there’s something to enjoy in every month.

christmas for various sad reasons

Height of summer. I get so stressed when I'm overheated