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?

Yes I totally agree with this - reminds me of this Larkin poem:

The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

I’ve never come across this before - I love it, thank you for sharing 🩷

Yes this was me, felt like this until my early 40s. Had a sense of dread when spring approached, found it difficult to explain.

I'm 60 now and haven't felt like that for 10 years or more. Very strange.

I'm another one who feels this, I find the turning of seasons brings out some complicated emotions for me. I knew it was spring about a week ago (live in the south west), which feels early this year. I'm not sure it's SAD exactly but I feel the season changes quite intensely. My favourite season change is Summer to Autumn, I can tell you the exact day it happens every year where I live, it's like someone flicks a switch.

So interesting there's a few of us who feel this way.

I embrace all the seasons changing but sometimes struggle in the middle of winter, it drags on!

I feel the same. I do like the fact that it gets lighter. However i feel as though spring is just an extension of winter. Summer is either too hot or a wash out. I love the change to autumn.

Now with the Springtime
The days will grow longer
And after St Bride's Day
My sail I will raise. *
St Brigid's Day is next Saturday. Celtic spring ...but always feels too cold?

• Anois teacht an Earraigh / Now comes the Spring. Anton O'Raifteri

Me too..what's weird is I don't know why I feel it!

I LOVE coming into winter but this time of year really drags for me. It’s nice the days are getting longer but summer still feels like a million miles away! It’s not getting warmer and in fact February/March usually brings snow 🥲

I have written a post like this before. I totally understand where you're coming from and the feeling you're experiencing.
For me, I think it's something to do with how I think, and how I seem to feel very different mentally at different points in the year. I seem to struggle at every change in season, although less so spring to summer and autumn to winter, but more do winter to spring and summer to autumn.
I feel like I need to adjust my thinking to the new season, and then I am okay, but it can take me 2/3 weeks each time. I guess it can do with being quite a sensitive person, I know I am.
Also, on another note I think I dread summer because I have to see and hear my neighbours more which irritates me, but that's another story!

Nope. I get SAD during January, February and middle if March. As soon as that spring weather and lighter nights peek round the corner I feel so much better

Also south west, would you say it's the second half of September? I have noticed this too (hoping we have the same day now! ☺️)

I felt elated tonight when I left work and saw the sky was blue, heard the birds singing, saw the snowdrops out and daffodils pushing up. I felt lighter.

I love Spring - a time of renewal and rebirth.🥂

I used to feel the same, but then I moved in with DH who does not like the heating on. I felt so happy today to be able to sit in a patch of sunshine, like a cat.

Seasonal Affected Disorder can actually occur at any time. Some people get it in Summer!

Spring is definitely my least favourite season but I think for me it's more to do with the slowness of the weather getting warmer. There are signs but it can be bitterly cold Feb and March.

I love September to December as the nights draw in.

Yes, I get anxious as Spring approaches.

Ive seen Daffodils starting to push up, birds singing loudly, and the tree buds starting to show and its still light when i leave work now.

Ive always felt this way. I think its because I'm a home body and like Autumn and winter as its quieter outside and more acceptable to stay inside. Give it another month or two and the place will be teaming with people shouting, playing loud music, dogs barking, people banging about doing DIY, cars farting up and down the roads with music blaring, festivals, markets, fairs and god knows what other noise.

I do love spring, the smells, the light mornings and the sun on my face, and fully intend to sit on the patio in my anorak and drink a glass of Rose this weekend.

BUT. It also means jobs. Lawn mowing, weeding, cleaning stuff, keeping overgrown stuff back, the ability to sit down at the weekend and just relax is gone.

Could it be that?

I love the signs of spring, makes me feel so hopeful. It was cold but sunny today and I had so much more energy. It's the dull, dark, wet grey days that really get me down.

I thought this was defined as a response to lack of sunshine. Like a chemical deficit. As in, there is a physical, tangible cause. Its just feelings then?

We have this exact same thread every year.

Not saying the following this you OP but as soon as April hits you have the thread where people are ‘dreading’ a heat wave because last year was so hot’, despite it barely getting over 25C last year even in the South East.

Then those same people are looking forward to it being winter and being ‘cozy’ and drinking ‘hot choc’.

I feel weird about spring too. But only as an adult; as a child I loved it. I think it's because in the summer months I (irrationally) feel pressure to be out and about and spontaneous and sociable. None of which particularly appeal to me and this irrational pressure makes me feel anxious and sad! In autumn and winter it's more permissable to hibernate and disappear into myself (again, irrational I realise). Spring to me feels like I'm being forced to emerge from hibernation and I feel exposed and vulnerable.

Having said all that, once we get to May I enjoy the warmth and flowers. But July/August? Hate, hate, hate!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zngr

Interesting piece on this podcast about summer SAD.

But that's not what the OP is saying. She said she likes Summer.