Serious Summertime Sadness (No, not the song!)

Ninetales

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    Is anyone else prone to feeling more glum when the weather gets hot? I don't suffer from depression or anything but I do tend to feel downcast more often than normal during the summer months (I know it's still technically spring but summer's right around the corner.)

    I think part of it for me may be that I struggle to sleep due to the heat and humidity and that I dislike weather that gets above 25 degrees Celsius (which is lovely because I live in one of the hottest regions in Canada and we're already experiencing temperatures in the mid-30s). Also, I have VERY oily skin and so I feel like a melting ice cream cone at all times and it sucks! Butttt I still like to tan lmao

    Can anyone else relate?
     
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    more so in adulthood, yeah. my first summer after college wasn't too bad bc i was working part time jobs and it still felt like summer. when i had a full time job the year after though, it really hit me like wow you don't get breaks no more. now summer just makes me think of being unemployed bc i spent most of summer last year looking for a job and that's how i kickstarted my summer this year too. yee haw.
     
    I live in Michigan and grew up without AC till about 2 years ago. The only time it bothered me was trying to sleep and it seemed like I would always stick to the bed.
     
    If anything I get the opposite. The moment it starts getting cold and snowing my fucks to give nope right outta me.
     
    Mine's almost the exact opposite - while I prefer cold weather, the lack of sunlight/consistent gloomy weather tends to make me super hella depressed. I think it gets worse when time change happens and it gets dark super early. I take antidepressants daily for my depression, but sometimes they feel useless when it's cold, dark, and dreary.
     
    Nope. I'm a very Swedish Swede, meaning I'm borderline depressed and miserable October to March and overjoyed and loving life May to August.

    I'm really dependant on good weather in order to feel good, apparently. And darkness and snow just isn't doing it for me.
     
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    As grueling as some summer days are, I feel way happier and more lively in the summer than in winter. My ideal time is spring leading into summer, but I'm so much more motivated to move when it's hot and not cold. My mood goes down in the winter.
     
    I can't feel heat, but in the summer, I get a lot more irritated and upset than I normally do since it's sunnier out. I don't have seasonal depression, really.
     
    I don't think I do..? I get more agitated if it's too hot and I tend to overheat faster than most.. which is ironic since my mum's side has some Hawaiian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't get cold as easily though.
    Not to mention Ohio likes to play Wheel of Weather Fortune a lot so the temperature loves to be random. :)
     
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