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Yeah, I have it really bad too. Here's my list

• Light therapy - big big help. Get one of those sunlamp alarm clocks, deliberately sit in bed with it pointing at the corner of your eyes for half an hour when you wake up and check your bears. I've also got one above my desk. I'm considering just replacing some of my regular housing lights with stupid bright ones. The converse of this is that you also have to start turning off lights before bed.

• Melatonin - take one half an hour before bed, and try to always to go bed at about the same time of day. Doesn't really help against basic depressive blahs, but it stops most of the complete zombie days

• Vitamin D supplements - maybe helps, it's hard to tell honestly

• Exercise, eat yer vegetables, etc - I mean it helps, but it's also like the first thing that depression tries to undo, so I don't think this is that reliable

I was in rehab with a guy that suffered from seasonal depression and he'd end up relapsing in the winter, so you're not allow. Like others have said maybe vit D might help a bit?

I'm not a doctor or an endocrinologist or even intelligent. But when I start to feel like this during the winter I take a vitamin d pill and sometimes a magnesium pill. It's probably a placebo but it seems like it helps me

Take a vitamin D suppliment comrade. It probably won't fix it but it should help

seasonal a-something disorder? I suffer from it too.

Am I like the only motherfucker that like winter? I mean the weather recently has been mostly clear skies and no snow ( WHICH SUCKS BECAUSE SNOW IS GREAT) so I can't complain much. The worst part is probably not having the sun help me wake up in the mornings, and thanks to this thread I now know sunlamps are a thing. Also don't get me started on full moons which are beautiful as fuck this time of year, too bad I missed the last super moon, a night walk then would've rocked...

Also........ crima

Yes and I've found a genius way of dealing with it by not leaving my home all month.

Yeah it started around end of november for me about 4 weeks before solstice. If it's really tied to day length I should get out of it around end of january. Used to be way worse one year it was like 8 weeks before solstice and it really did take until beginning of march. Also I'm so sleepy and tired all the time because I'm a mammal in winter damnit. Envious of squirrels rn.

In addition to what everyone said about Vitamin D supplements or food rich in Vitamin DBuy a light therapy lamp that is rated at least 10,000 lux and sit in front of it (within 12-18 inches of your eyes) within an hour of waking up every morning for 30 minutes.

Yes. I have bad depression normally but December through February is just awful.

Oh yeah, I exercise, a lot

It helps, especially those days when I just feel like this

I have this but the opposite

I get something like seasonal psychosis. My psychotic symptoms become worse when it starts getting dark at 6. I do kinda like winter when it snows, because it brightens things up. I'm also phobic of the dark, so that helps.

Yeah it fuckin sucks. And everyone says garbage like "you need the cold gray days to appreciate the nice sunny days!" But like....why the fuck should I be so extra miserable half a goddamn year?

I wish people could seasonally migrate if they wanted.

I've always loved gray skies but I'm depressed all year regardless. I once knew someone who visited my hometown and saw how gray everything was and got visibly upset by it, but they also couldn't comprehend being depressed except for understanding in the abstract that some people get sad and then CW.

idk, I don't like it because it's sad, it just always felt pleasant to me, like how fog is beautiful.

Anyway, obviously I'm not challenging your reaction to it or anything, brain chemicals are funny (though I would ask if it's just a correlative thing with a vitamin d deficiency or something).

Foots been hurting, ears are clogged which is throwing my sense of balance off so I’m going to the ENT tomorrow for it, still need to do some Christmas shopping, and i’ve got to rearrange a bunch of furniture and take a door off in the house by Saturday morning because my washing machine died and they have to take the old units out and the new ones in via the front door even though the back door is much closer because the last home owner decided when she redid the kitchen to put in a narrower back door so a standard washer and dryer can’t fit through it, plus it’s the busy season at work.

So yeah, you could say my mental health has taken a hit lately.

Yes.

Now who tf are you? Are you a clean bird?

this year i'm doing really well. I won't list off the reasons why but, I feel that it's definitely linked to the way that I changed my lifestyle during this period of time.

that's interesting that you mentioned gray skies. When I was watching the sunset yesterday, I was looking at the sky and how gray it was. I also remembered a time when I felt like you, and looking at the gray sky felt depressing. Yesterday, the sky looked beautiful to me, like a beautiful moonstone. I'm not sure why my perception has changed so much.

It has been rough as shit for me too these last two years. Not sure what changed.

i got the exact opposite, sometimes i wish i could split the difference with someone so i wouldn't hate life in the summer and they could do alright in the winter

Yes. Sorta'. It's not SAD I don't think, but because I need to become almost nocturnal to keep the woodstove going because everyone else in this house has some undiagnosed secret-mystery trauma of not being able to put a couple logs into a woodstove when they walk by it maybe once or twice a day for me for some reason.