To say this weather is causing me to become depressed

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I know it sounds like I’m some sort of misery reveller, after all long hot days are supposed to be what we all love, but I’m really, genuinely struggling.

I haven’t slept well for weeks due to the heat and neither have the children. Late nights and early wake ups. Stuffy bedrooms even with fans circulating,

During the day it’s so hot. When in work I feel like I’m slowly melting in stuffy classrooms with kids whining endlessly about water bottles and crackling ice. On my days off (I’m part time) it’s often overwhelming, especially in the middle of the day. Constantly worrying about the children burning - one insisted on standing outside yesterday just for the hell of it with no hat or sun cream and had to be dragged in forcefully. Everyone’s just irritable with one another, the car is like an oven when you get in it, flies, fucking FLIES.

And there’s this low level pressure to be out enjoying it. One of our soft play centres has actually put out an appeal just begging people to attend because the hot weather means it’s been empty for weeks.

I want autumn now. I want coolness and leaves turning and rain.

Wtf?

'asian background' ???

What on earth does that have to do with people feeling hot?

Shock horror I'm brown and also find it hot. As do all my brown friends and family.

Why? ..because it's hot!

WTAF?

We're not some other species that don't feel heat. Your comment is both strange and very offensive.

Once again: days on end of temperatures above 30 degrees is not normal for the uk. Also, even if it were normal, why is it so difficult for some people to grasp that not everyone enjoys hot weather? We’re all different.

@Sexlessandconfused that a lot of them regularly go to Pakistan (mostly, but other places as well) to visit extended family where it’s a lot hotter than the UK.

I’m lost as to what’s wrong with saying that - there’s nothing derogatory in it, or remotely offensive.

Buy an air-conditioning unit for your bedroom. Problem solved.

Where do you live btw? I'm considering moving after reading so much about these tropical areas of the UK that I never knew existed, it rarely gets warm enough in Manchester to bother taking the covers off the garden furniture. So depressing.

I think it's more that it's frustrating for those of us who struggle with cold, windy, rainy weather when we're the ones who have to put up with it for months on end, rather than a few weeks of summer. (And some of us cannot afford to adequately heat our homes so summer is the only respite we get!)

That said, I suspect OPs main problem is the lack of sleep, it will be making everything else difficult to deal with and causes depression.

OP, try sleeping under a damp sarong/sheet. I found this helpful when in very hot places. (By damp I mean wrung out, not washing machine spun.) If you can manage a good night's sleep the rest will be easier. Good luck x

Look at this record of the weather South Wales 1816 to 1841.

For info, 90 degrees F is just over 32 degrees C

A friend of mine and his wife moved from Yorkshire to just outside London a few years ago, largely driven by his wife's constant complaints about the weather up north. If he moans once more about how hot it is, I might point out that they chose this.

Well ok, some have another week!!

Summer onset SAD is a real thing. I hate the heat. I struggle with my mental health and every single time I’ve had a real crisis it has been in summer.

I’m sorry OP. Just try to hang on to the fact that it IS temporary and autumn will come.

One of my therapists said if you need to get an air conditioner and close the curtains and light a nice candle then do that! Even if it’s 30 degrees and sunny. It’s not against the law.

I do this! I go inside shut the curtains and read with a fan on. Its lovely. Everyone thinks summer is the time to be going out and doing things and for some that's true, but for others its a time of chill and conserving energy.

What have you and family done this weekend op?

I have a child with complex needs and poor lungs. He literally cannot go out if it is too hot and humid. The humid air contains more moisture than dry air so it is literally heavy. so he has to work v hard to keep his oxygen levels up. He inevitably gets tired and his saturation levels start to crash. He relies on oxygen and a bipap machine to keep him alive .
So these are the kind of people who die in v hot and humid weather.But I will just tell him to get a grip and stop making a fuss about the heat. Thanks for the tip !

Presumably your son isn’t ever in the heat
so would never form part of those statistics
so the PP’s posters question still stands

I can't say that my son would never be a statistic .He even struggles indoors but also people with asthma and other lung conditions can also really struggle. Why is it so hard to believe that heat waves cause additional.deaths,?

I highly highly recommend the Meaco fans

Game changer

thank you.

Hazy and warm but not baking here in Bath -

I never said I didn't believe the heat related deaths, I merely enquired about them. We have far more days with hot weather here than you do in the UK and I've never read anything about heat related deaths here, never given it a thought, so I wondered why it was such a big thing in the UK yet never mentioned here.

People in the UK bang on and on about how hot it is and how dry. I've yet to see farms in the UK covered in huge irrigators as they are here to achieve green pasture, and the ozone layer over us is thinner so we burn more easily than you guys do - and yet you carry on as though you live in the hottest place on earth.

Another one with no comprehension skills!!!! I did not say people like your child have to get a grip, I was talking about the average MNer who can't seem to cope with temperatures over 25 degrees or anything else for that matter

Why do so many posters take everything as if it is aimed solely at them?

I merely asked about the excess deaths because I have never heard anything about excess deaths in summer where I live so I was just curious. OK?

YANBU. I HATE summer. We have window AC units so it’s bearable, but the humidity gives me migraines, 14 weeks off of school is far too many for my DC, and I feel guilty that I’m not out doing more with them…but when we do go somewhere “fun” I just feel sweaty and grubby and annoyed.

I am exactly like this OP. I hate it really hot. I can't do anything , really unmotivated, don't sleep, moody and low. There are others like you out there. Bring on some rain, and Autumn, can't wait. My fear is that most summers are going to be like this from now on.

I wonder if people will still be saying "It's just summer blah blah" in ten years time when it will probably regularly be over 40C in summer.

Why does no-one acknowledge climate change? It's odd. I know the last two summers haven't been particularly warm but they've not been normal either. And yes, the anomaly of 1976🙄

1976 was warm but it was unusual because of the associated drought.

The year before was warm too.

Oh they said that 10 years ago
and 10 years before that
and 10 years before that

The majority of people accept the science, then you get a split in the minority between those who dont understand the science and those who are climate change deniers.

Going on about 1976 is indeed.