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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[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.