Anyone else get depressed in Spring?

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I get SAD the wrong way round. No one else I'm my life has it , but I find spring really depressing and unsettling . Anyone else?

quite the opposite

it is such a relief to drive in the light
i just love the birds singing

My husband is like this! Loves autumn and winter and soon as spring comes around he is miserable. I’m the complete opposite

I love Spring. Seeing plants emerging, birds singing, longer and lighter days, (could do without the mating foxes). It’s such a positive season.

Yes, me and I thought I was the only one. I love the dark evenings and the feeling of hibernation. I dread the clocks changing. My favourite months are January and February when Christmas is over and it’s cold and bleak outside.

Yes! Me. My lethargy and mood drops when the clocks change.

I feel the same and always have.
I love September to Christmas the best.
Spring freaks me out too and I dislike the heat & long days of Summer.

I rarely express it though because I find people think it's an odd way to feel so I usually go along with the norm & pretend to rejoice that spring is on the way.

Glad to hear from this thread that I am not alone!

Yes I do. Spranxiety I call it. I think it’s pressure to be more productive, be out and about and on the go. Everything revving up and fertile.

I’m the opposite. As soon as the temperature goes up a few degrees and the days get longer and lighter, my whole body seems so much lighter and happier.
We have horses, so winter is just one long depressing, exhausting slog 😂

Yes, same feeling here.

I know exactly what you mean and relate 100%.

it’s as though during winter, you have permission to retreat inside and become a bit of a homebody / hermit. The longer evenings, milder air, reawakening of the natural world - for me - is profoundly unsettling.

I think it’s like having a comforting duvet whipped off you. It’s a more sociable season. More pressure / expectation to be outside, ‘doing things’, seeing people, etc.

Some years it doesn’t trouble me quite as much, but if I’m even slightly depressed I find it very difficult. This year it’s going to get to me, I can already tell.

interestingly, suicide rates peak in April, while they are usually quite low in the depths of winter, so there’s something to it. And as TS Elliott said,

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

having said all of the above, I always feel a bit grief stricken, and mourn the passing of the summer solstice. Right now it comforts me to think this is only three and a half months away.

I totally understand this...I love autumn and don't mind winter (although we have horses so very more enjoyment out of then in the drier months obviously).

I'm interested though.... people who aren't a fan of spring/ summer.... would you describe yourself as introverts? Because my autumn happy feeling i have realised is somewhat connected to drawing curtains... feeling safe in my own private space etc. I don't mean I feel unsafe at other times, but i find autumn gives me more restorative alone time indoors. Curious to know if this is a common theme.

I really hate the clocks going forward and the theory about assosiating this season with approaching exams makes sense for me. Also I've got a lot of bad memories of this season for various reasons.

Nope. I fucking love it. Light mornings and evenings, can’t bloody wait. Bring it on.

Yep! I wouldn't say I'm depressed necessarily but the last couple of really bright, warmer days has been disappointing for sure!

I quite like the novelty of the change but once that's worn off I could do without it. When the tides turn in Sept/Oct now that's when I get joyful! Getting my big coat out of the wardrobe? Bliss!

It's quite interesting how different everyone is! What drives me mad is when the spring and Summer lovers endlessly complain about the winter and if anymore dare complain in reverse they are in total disbelief and outraged.

I was thinking of this thread as I walked the dog, and speculating that lots of the spring-dislikers might be urban dwellers, apprehensive about warm weather in small houses, not being able to open windows without letting in noise and fumes. And not having much private outdoor space, relying on overused public spaces that might be stressful, npoisy, etc.

But, reading the thread, that doesn't actually seem to be the main focus at all. One thing I'm seeing, that I can empathise with, is that spring and summer for many of you are times when you feel more pressure to go out and "do" stuff, enjoy the weather, etc. I guess that it particularly a problem when you have young or youngish children.

I'm the other way round, though. I find Christmas (and the exhaustingly long build up to Christmas) the time of greatest pressure to do certain things, create certain experiences with the children. Warmer weather seems to be less infected with social expectations than the winter. I feel less in society, more in nature.

I'm very lucky, though. I live in a rural area where it is really possible to respond to the change of season. For me it seems almost a biological thing, hardwired by evolution, to unfold into the outside as the spring arrives.

I love Spring and Summer. Just thought to myself I'm looking forward to tennis on the tv and cricket on the radio, flowers in the garden, washing on the line. Driving home from work in daylight and getting home and it still being light enough to do stuff.

Yesterday was the first spring day we've had. We've had endless rain this year, we had the full months rain in the first two weeks of February where I am, it just felt relentless.

Winter wouldn't have been so bad without all the bloody rain.

Same. I hate March. Completely pointless. April is no better as I don't like Easter.

its your life thats shit not the time of year (applies to all SAD).

I’m really struggling right now. I like winter. I like cold. It makes me feel alive. we get warmer shorter winters every year- except 2018- and I worry how it’ll be when my children are grown up? I also don’t need it to be the end of February for personal reasons. I don’t want all the bloody snowdrops when we’ve only had 1 day of snow. it’s just so depressing 🥺

No. I'm driving down the M5, the sun is shining and my car recorded 17 degrees at one point.

I am fed up of the relentless rain and grey gloom we have had this winter. I have driven past loads of flooded fields and feel sorry for the farmers.

If you are overweight you don't look any more overweight in summer weight clothes - honestly.

In hot weather people in baggy jumpers just look like people trying to hide their bodies.

There are clothes for every shape and size that flatter whatever shape you are - believe me.

Absolutely same - I think it’s the bright chilly sunny days where one feels the pressure to be outside but it’s not all that pleasant yet. Love summer, autumn and sometimes winter but spring is by far my least favourite season.