SAD

[poliphilo]

I tell Ailz I think I've got SAD and mean it as a joke, because what could be sillier than getting SAD in July? but she says other people have been saying the same thing and- what is SAD, after all, but a quasi-scientific term for being pissed off by the weather? Apparently we've just had the wettest June since records began. 

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Yes, and before that we had the wettest April since records began. May was merely damp.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Maybe we're going to have another fine autumn.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

No wonder i felt moody the other day

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, we're not getting our rays.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

theferrett gets SAD in the summer too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'll check out what he says.

[zephyrcrow.livejournal.com]

Seasonal Depression Can Accompany Summer Sun (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/13/health/seasonal-depression-can-accompany-summer-sun.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm) (from the New York Times)

A lot of people get it in the spring too, from what I understand.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. I thought it was all about the absence of sunlight.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Sure you can. My two worst months of the year have been February and July, both at extremes weatherwise. I have learned to face them with a few little tricks I have collected over the years, so the severity of those reactions has diminished somewhat. Back when I was drinking and trying achieve a permanent sobriety, those were the two months I was likely to "break out". I stopped drinking in the month of December several years ago, got through until the end of February without thinking about it too much -- I had too much pain from being without the booze. July came, and I feared it, but July went and I was still "dry". At that point I thought, "I just might make it this time." And I did, for these many years, and over time my SAD has diminished. But I still HATE it when it rains and rains and sun reuses to shine! You have my sympathy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm supposing it gets really hot in midsummer where you live. Over here that rarely happens. I remember my first taste of an American summer and how enervating it was. You stepped outside and it was like stepping into an oven.

The hottest place I've ever been is the Valley of the Kings. the second hottest is Louisville, Kentucky.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

For me it's long hours of darkness. Last winter was unseasonably warm but that didn't stop me crashing a few weeks before Christmas and locking myself away from man or beast. Sympathies.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've been finding it gets worse as I grow older. I used not to be fazed by winter; now I find myself getting really hungry for a glimpse of the sun.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that SAD was about lack of light - which is certainly caused by constant cloud/rain - so I suspect that I've been rescued by the fact that it's broad daylight at 2200 and again at whatever time i wake up -
Oddly, I used to enjoy complete darkness - no streetlights - which seems contradictory - but I think that was because there was such a wonderful view of the night sky, and because the weather conditions there tended to short-lived cloud

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I too thought it was about lack of light, but apparently it can be caused by the opposite as well.

The people who talk about getting SAD in summer are all American. American summers can be stiflingly hot and bright.

I miss the night sky.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

One thing I have noticed about the long days of summer: when the daylight is longer I feel like I have more time.