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Does Bad Weather Really Affect Mental Health.Seasonal Affective Disorder - Is it caused by us mentally not liking certain weather (i.e rain), or is it to do with other peoples preferences? For example, if someone feels down when it rains a lot is this them not liking the weather by instinct, or emulating other peoples dislike for rain?
im only asking:thumb:

 

Good question that i have no answer to

 

I certainly think so. I think that the character of a person has a lot to do with the characteristic of the weather and how changeable the weather is.
PS I like the rain as much as the sun

 

Prolonged grey weather definitely makes me feel like crawling in hole and be lost to the world.

 

strange isnt it ...how does the snow make you feel and how does the sun make you feel apart from warm:thumb:

 

I have no choice here on the pennines, however I am a bit contrary. I love February. I used to do cross country when I was younger and you run regardless. I came to deeply appreciate to effect of a low, white, cold sun bouncing off the wet surfaces of everything and blinding you. And it`s quiet out there when its cold and dark too.

 

SAD is a medically proven condition. This website gives the best explanation.

One possibility is that SAD is related to a lack of serotonin that prevents depression and another theory is that the cause may be related to melatonin which is produced in dim light and darkness and promotes depression.

 

Kandy will be interested in this thread, she suffers from S A D, I think she bought a Lightbox last winter, but i dont know if it worked..

 

I would say it is a bit of both.

Most of us have weather and temperatures we prefer and if weather is such that we can't do what we want to do then it is going to affect our mood.

SAD is somewhat more than that and is linked to the amount of daylight we get. Much more information on the links that have been posted but is a definite condition that some people have to live with.

We may well all be pretty fed up with the summer we have (not) had but that is very different from the SAD syndrome.

High pressure is also linked to mood disturbances too!

 

I can only say that in a grey winter I become a bedraggled wreck, depressed, frustrated, unhappy, touchy (even more than usual I mean :D), well, in brief, horrid. By mid may,voilà, I am a new creature, I feel drunk on happiness, costantly euphoric, springy, full of radiating energy,people fall in love with me at every corner, and I feel like hugging the world.

May be I need a light box too, and not for cuttings and tropical seeds. I hope the hubby remembers to water me now and then trough the winter and pot me on if necessary :D

 

:D:D blimey sounds like you need locking up in spring:thumb: cant wait till our kandy can shed some light on it:thumb:

 

I suffer from this condition, its quite difficult to explain to someone who dosnt. If its gloomy and overcast , I feel really down, no get up and go. I feel worse in the winter than summer due to lower light levels. Winter days that are frosty with blue skys dont affect me. But as I say when it is dull and gloomy I just want to curl up and hibernate. This summer has had a bad affect on me due to the lack of sun. I can relate to you Ivory. My spirits are lifted round about the time of the daffodils blooming and as you say a feeling of eurhoria. 02

 

well... I like the rain :D (i should mention I like the sun too, what I hate is the in between :D)

 

I suffered with it in the UK .... one of the reasons I live here now. :thumb:

T'other half couldn't decide which was worse .... my SAD syndrone or my going through the change .... I was apparently Jekyll & Hyde with both. :D I / we now have neither to worry about .