Anyone else not enjoy the season change to Spring?

[Soniastrumpet1984]

I know this is an unusual one but I get seasonal affective disorder for spring not autumn.
In my neck of the woods, there are little signs of spring coming, and it makes me feel very low. Once it's here I get used to it and like it, and I enjoy summer but its the change that upsets me. Anyone else?

I wonder why?

I LOVE the signs of life emerging

My DP has SAD but the start of spring means the end is in sight for him. Every day there being a bit more sunlight is already starting to cheer him up. Does more light not improve things?

I find all season changes difficult. It's like I'm used to one then have to get into another and find them enjoyable eventually but feel an ugh when they start to change.

I absolutely love spring once it really gets going though. It's my favourite

I get very anxious and low in spring. I’m not sure why. It’s definitely my least favourite season though.

I love spring but I do feel for you because I struggle with the change from spring to summer and can’t wait for autumn to start.

Where are you living? I see no signs of spring and I'm on the edge of London. Maybe too desperate. I have a hyacinth in my kitchen which just bloomed and smells lovely, but that's about it.

No I’m the opposite

up here (greater Manchester) the light is increasing by the day and the birds are getting more vocal

They are there, you just have to look closely. I’m Hertfordshire, and the trees are starting to bud and the daffodils have started to poke their way above the soil. Lots of bird song in the mornings too.

You must be seeing snowdrops and daffs pushing through, I'm way up North and that's all underway here

This is me!! But I don't get it for autumn or winter

Exactly the same where I am!

Me too

I love spring but I do find summer tricky, mostly because I’m overweight. Hoping to change that this year.

Don't you enjoy the first warm mornings when you can leave the house without a coat on?

I always find the stretch between now and spring hardest. Christmas is over, and its freezing and normally very grey. That being said I'm very happy with all the blue skies we've had this week, it definitely does lift you a bit but the cold absolutely wrecks me.

Like PP’s have mentioned I think it’s the change some of us don’t like and the visual reminder that the year (TIME) is progressing - this is perhaps the bigger aspect, time slipping away and what that means existentially to us etc. it can feel quite depressing and the fact we have no control over it. We need to try to focus on the things in the year to look forward to each season and take each one as it comes ☺️

I kind of know what you mean op. I remember feeling for years a sense of queasiness and dread as the season changed to spring. It was so strange, looking back at it, and I remember telling a friend who said her dad had the same thing! It’s something about the weak evening light and sound of birds. I used to feel it right up until well into my thirties.

Now I don’t really feel it at all, and quite like the sense of spring emerging. But I remember the feeling well.

Editing to add that I don’t feel it AT ALL with any other season; autumn to winter and spring to summer just feel like natural transitions that I barely notice, and I positively embrace summer to autumn, it’s one of my favourite times of year sensing the summer fade and slow down and the smoky autumn start to filter in.

I don't mind spring per se but it does remind me summer is coming with too much heat and light so yes, I get you.

But you know, T.S. Eliot had a point.

Ice where I am this morning but a stunning sunny misty sunrise. Late summer into Autumn is my favourite time.

It is def getting darker later this week.

We measure out our lives in coffee spoons? 😁

I don't like the expectation for it to be warm and lovely, and it's chilly for months and months

Do you supplement well with vitamin d? Pretty much everyone at this latitude will be deficient by this point in the winter/early spring and won't be able to make more till April.

Deficiency can make you feel low and anxious and a few years of that could have you associating the low feeling with the signs of spring, maybe.

That too!

I need the signs of spring coming to keep me going.