Summer Sad and Heat: Interesting Commentary

This is from a blog I've read off and on for years.  I find it interesting that people can have such a diversity of reactions to summer.  I guess it's not all that surprising.  I definitely don't have summer SAD.  I think the most common theme I"ve seen in people hating summer comes along with the heat and humidity.

Also, I think I  have "summer depression" (i.e. Seasonal Affective Disorder which hits in the summer). Apart from the "haw haw, too sunny for you" attitudes in some comments, I was struck by how some people described my reactions to summer so well -- I hate the heat, particularly the humidity (I can't sleep when it's hot; I feel lethargic, suffocated, apathetic, nearly sick. I'm a night owl and always have been and always perk up around 10-11 PM, but that's especially true in the summer, when there are night breezes and stars and clouds. I love fall and spring -- winter's okay, although February usually kicks my ass. The grey drizzly wet cloudy weather so many people in Seattle complain about (Jesus, move to Phoenix, ) I find invigorating, even energizing.

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So yeah, the idea of sitting in front of a light box? I don't think so. (I grew up in a  light box. I hated it. I love overcast skies, clouds, rain, thunderstorms, water, breezes, coolness. The local weather forecasters on the evening news and a bunch of people I know here have all been unceasingly whingeing about how the weather "sucks" now after a few days of near-miserable heat. GOD. MOVE TO MIAMI. These idiots all remind me of the jerks on Ray Bradbury's Venus longing for their goddamned Sun Domes.)

Comments

[saskia]

mwaahahahaaaaa! I love the GOD. MOVE TO MIAMI. comment...it's even worse here in Los Angeles where you get a semi-overcast sky and people think it's gloomy. Rain? It's a national emergencY!!