I don't, and never have.

Why not?

Of course I like the longer daylight hours (and they and the accompanying warmer weather reduce my electricity and gas bills!) but I just take it as it comes.

It's just a season, as are Spring, Summer and Autumn; with its own, natural characteristics.

Winter does not stop me doing most of what I want to do, beyond a few accompanying activities, and limiting or changing others, for a while; but I still have my interests and their social life.

If I simply want to go for a walk, I can, at any time of year - though perhaps not in pouring rain! The scenery is different in Winter- sometimes opened up by the trees being leafless. On fine, cold days the air is much clearer than in Summer, widening the vista.

I do not mope around moaning "Roll on Summer". The years go by rapidly enough without wishing my life away.


The only possible physical effect Winter may have ever had on me, and it's not provable, was a period of Vitamin D deficiency probably twenty years ago. I was working at the time in a building with limited natural daylight, and in Winter my travel to and from there was largely in twilight. So my exposure to sunlight was low. (Sunlight does not "make" Vitamin D in our skin, but it energises the chemistry our bodies use to make it.)

Indoor plants can be an answer. They change each day, especially bulbs.

Try to maximise daylight hours. Get up at dawn.

A walk when it is sunny.

Coffee with friends. A concert maybe.

It's not the short days, wind, or even the never ending snow squalls that make Winter difficult.
It's the extreme cold. It seems to magnify everything else.

Yes, occasionally I experience that. This winter has been warm and sunny, so I’ve been less affected, but during a lot of ”grey days" I find I’m rather low-energy.

It's interesting your name is sundazzled, because the cure is Vit D from the sun or Vit D3 sups

Yup, I definitely battle seasonal depression as well. Especially October/November for some reason.

Yes - it has a label: SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder. I suffer badly from it

Yeah. Fall and winter can be pretty rough for me.

Yes, I go early to bed dreaming of summer warmth to come

Yeppa, but my seasonal affective disorder is on top of my major depressive disorder and general anxiety disorder. So it sucks year round, it just sucks worse in winter.

Yes but it's been a warm week.

I don't remember what the sun looks like

Nice winter time song :)

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Yes especially if the weather is raining

I use to, but not since we moved to Florida. Everything is so green here and the flowers are in bloom.

Yes