2025/26 SAD thread

[Idstillratherbepaddleboarding]

It’s 1st September tomorrow so we’re back for another year’s SAD thread.

Welcome all old and new who struggles in the cold and dark months for advice and general moaning!

The only rule is no talk of snuggling under blankets, crunching in leaves (which will realistically be a soggy wet mulch, or pumpkin spiced anything!

Advice from previous years’ threads:

A SAD lamp can help as can a daylight alarm clock.
Try to get outdoors when the weather/ light allows it.
Try to keep up with your exercise routine or start a new one!
Remember to take your vitamin D and multi vitamins.
Try to have something to look forward to.

How was the party @Idstillratherbepaddleboarding ?@Idstillratherbepaddleboarding ? I'm very impressed!

I've been quiet because life's busy and i can feel myself being run down. Haven't got back to any kind of me normal since the clock changed. Had a week off work but it been spent ferrying kids places. I might have been better off at work. The longer light days help a bit but the wind we've been having and massive changes in weather everyday feel like they are breaking my brain. Like I said. Run down. I've even developed some manky scabs on my face which I'm told is impetigo. It keeps going and then coming back again in exactly the same spot. Was OK with it to start with but now it's just getting me down. Dr's given me a week of antibiotics to tak but I know they will make me feel nauseous so I've my head in the sand still. Noone else in the family has caught it and it hasn't spread anywhere else on my body...

I am pleased to hear things are easing off for some of us. It helps know it is slowly getting better.

I probably shouldn't say this... But I feel with my mn gang on here... But I'm already worrying about the end of summer. So much for Living for today! Happy weekend everyone and I do think about us all often even if my stupid busy life is getting in the way of posting regularly on here.

Omg the typos. Sorry guys. And I nearly lost my message which has increased my heart rate significantly!

@mrsdiddlydoo I know what you mean about already feeling a hint of dread about next winter- and we are hardly out of this one.

The weekend weather here was bizarre; grey, sun, hail, sun, rain, hail, grey, hail, sun.... it sent mood up and down like the proverbial yoyo.

I want to go outside and do some gardening hut the wind is making me so dysregulated.... Aaarrrggghhh. At least the washing will dry!

I haven’t been here for a while and guessed you’d all be happy and phew … and I didn’t want to read that, because I’m still sad, and stolid, and flat - spring doesn’t feel to have sprung. The wind makes being outside frustrating. And winter is looming in my mind. Instead of revelling in green leaves, I see all the leaves which will turn brown and drop
off come October.

I don’t even worry about winter coming, I worry about the weather the next day 😭.

One thing that is giving me energy though is drinking matcha. All these adverts suddenly appeared on my FB for expensive subscriptions but I just bought a normal bag from Amazon thinking I’m willing to try anything at this point and it is helping!

I’m so impatient for some settled proper spring weather that I’ve almost given up on it! It’s grey here today and showers forecast. My anxiety has been really bad the last week and I’ve gone down with a stinking cold and sore throat which I’m convinced it’s linked to my mood. I’ve taken the step of changing my GP surgery (got recommendations from a few friends) as I really want to be pro active about my mental and physical health, and I had realised I didn’t want to approach my previous GP practice because they are basically a bit shit!
Anyway the aim is to put myself hopefully in a better place to withstand next Winter. In the meantime hopefully we will actually get a summer! 🤞

It's so dark, grey and windy that I actually want to cry 😢 😫😰. I hope you have better weather

I think better weather is forecast for next week 🤞🤞.

We had thunder, lightning, torrential rain and hail yesterday! Came out of nowhere and was completely mad!

Seems like a very mixed bag of views and feelings here

It's been pretty nice here. The ducklings have been born. They are floofing about on the water. It's a bus ride for me to go and see it. But I am going regularly so I can keep an eye on them as they grow. Awww.

Really stupid thing to rant about - I'm having loads of issues with my teeth. Seriously, it's from teeth grinding and it's going to take a lot of very unpleasant appointments to save them. Don't get me started on the cost!!

I have tried asking the dentist if any of this can be delayed - partly because I wanted time to look into getting implants but partly also because it seems so sad to have summer ruined by this - but he has given very valid reasons why it can't be

I love May and June and was hoping to go away. It would be in the UK so I haven't booked anything yet. Probably a couple of long weekends, partly depending on whether in particular locations.

It's not fun, it's obviously really grim having to look at the prospect of doing all this work - but the fact that it can't be delayed until winter is really pissing me off. I mean if we could do it in November and December, literally nothing happens for me anyway!

it's not the fault of the dentist of course, and I have had a second opinion. One of the issues is that the potential for infection in cracked teeth is a real problem. And obviously if you get an abscess or something, you're at risk of losing teeth.

To be honest, I feel like I've spent most of the winter doing nothing and I'm okay with that - it just makes me feel mega ranty that summer is going to be spoiled with all of this. And I love spring - spring is my favourite. Got to get started on this next week. How sad. Going to need a lot of painkillers but my stomach doesn't tolerate those very well.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

I hope those of you with wild weather get an improvement soon.

@EmeraldRoulette oh no! Are you on anti depressants? Mine make me grind my teeth really bad!

It would be beautiful here if the bloody wind would go away 😭. I’ve no idea what to wear as it’s warm but then you get hit by a freezing wind.

Does anyone else have a bit of spring fever? 🤣 I’m a little worried I’m going hypomanic again but I’m making the most of it for now.

@Idstillratherbepaddleboarding yeah I went to hypomanic about three weeks ago - it can be very unpleasant, but I decided to try and channel it as well, and got loads of stuff done. I did have to take Valerian pills to calm down during the day.

It probably depends a lot on what kind of weather you're getting, that's probably the cause of the hypomania.

I'm not on antidepressants no. Funnily enough, I think a short period of those might help with all the dental work but I'm worried it will make the teeth grinding worse. I don't think I ground my teeth that badly until lockdown. That's the first time I broke a tooth anyway. They were able to save that tooth so it sounds silly but I don't think I realised what a serious problem it was. You know how things get put on the back burner when you have poor mental health generally? I think it was one of those. Obviously, it wasn't fun breaking a tooth, but it was fixed in an afternoon. I am genuinely shocked to have broken teeth that they're beyond saving.

Sorry if that thing about summer sounded really mad but I actually had a chat with the dentist about it yesterday - I didn't specifically mention summer but I did ask if some of the work could be delayed

I think the answer is no

I wish you could see into the future because if somebody could say to me "this period of weather will be crap" that's when I would book it for!

I had a whole long thread agonising about the right thing to do just in terms of fixing the teeth!

It is lovely and sunny here today. I hope others are seeing the Sun.

What a lovely sunny day 😎. I've been outside all day and feel so good for it. I hope you had sun too.

@EmeraldRoulette Your word 'floofing' is brilliant 👏. To floof is now added to my 'must use' vocabulary.

@lyingonthebeach glad you had a good day

Glad also that you like the word. In that case, you'll be pleased to hear that we visited the floofs today and they were floofing peacefully on the water and also ventured onto the path, supervised by their parents.

It's amazing how quickly those floofs grow up. Last year, I think we left it a couple of months between visits and they had become ducks! And then they're not floofs anymore!

editing to add - my friend's cat floofed happily at my feet when we got back. He really likes the sunshine. He's a different cat in the sunshine!

After days of mood boosting sunshine,the grey today feels like something is dragging me down. 🤞 the sun returns soon

Yes same! It’s cold and spitting rain here sigh….

It's cold and grey here but sun is forecast to return very soon

I hope that's the same for all of you