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Does anyone else suffer from winter depression?

I didn't realize I was until I was talking about it with a friend today. I just know that lately I've felt edgy and dissatisfied with everything. Sitting here with the wind howling outside I don't even want leave my apartment
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
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.)