Question of the Week: Does Your Anxiety Get Better or Worsen with the Change of Season?

Hello Eileen

Great question I'm glad that you came up with this I hope it brings more interaction in the members.

So I got the honnors of answering first

Well for me being from Canada I admit that after a long winter my moods are not what I would like them to be, the lack of sunlight (short days) and the cold is getting to me as I age.

I live in the country so exercise is part of the daily chores, cutting wood and animals to feed so I have a healthy routine.

This year tough as been harder I was waiting on the spring to enjoy the sun but it seems that mother nature as decided otherwise, its been raining and raining...did I mention rain.

So here we are almost at the begining of august and were still waiting on a summer its ridiculous, come to think about it I think that the fact of having no summer up here affects me more that the winter we just went rough or so it seem's.

Like the man use to say I dont need no weither man to know wich way the wind blows.

Suffolk

Hi there everyone.

My anxiety levels are going up already at the moment as it feels like the nights are drawing in already. I am claustrophobic, and the only way I can describe my feelings in the winter with the dark days and nights, is the same feelings I get when I'm feeling claustrophic. Everything is closing in on me. It's horrible.

I have always had a sence of dred when the floiage begins changing, not the colors aren't beautiful but I know winter is fast approching, which means another long and cold winter ahead.

Dewalt

Hello Eileen,

I do respond to seasonal changes as for autum and winter right on the heels, the sence of dread of winter approching rapidly, it affects my depression worsens.

Winter is long and brutal and hard to deal with.\

deWalt