I always find talk about seasonal depression a bit weird, not because I doubt what people go through but because my own experience is so different.
The worst time of year for me, when I’m living someplace hot, is around now—it’s the middle of November and it’s still unpleasantly hot during the day (our highs are still sticking around 30°C and muggy). I would rather have nine months of snow than this.
Kinda sounds like seasonal depression tbh - just the hot swamp variety rather than the frosty dark flavour that is perhaps more common
@sps
yeah, it probably is—it’s just not how it’s usually framed
@tkinias seasonal depression is not about snow and cold, it's about less sun. When I was living in Vancouver, my seasonal depression was way longer because there was no snow and it was often raining and dark in the fall and winter.
@stephanie
yeah, true—I was somewhat sloppily using “snow” to mean “winter”
but that kind of highlights how differently I experience it—I strongly associate the darker months of the year with getting respite from oppressive heat, so I have very positive associations, even to the extent of thinking of it as the time of bright snow rather than winter gloom...
@stephanie
(I’ve never spent more than a couple months at a time in the PNW, but personally I *loved* late autumn/early winter in Victoria...)
@tkinias I totally get it, I find humid heat very oppressive too! It's an interesting point though, SAD could have different triggers, it is called "seasonal"
@tkinias@historians.social
Says the person who's never lived with 9 months of darkness and snow!
@AWolfInCheapClothing
I’ve never lived in the Arctic, true. But I have lived in the mountains where the only snow-free months were June through August... so I do know what I’m talking about there.
@AWolfInCheapClothing
It’s quite weird to me how randos on the Internet decide they know enough about strangers to make pronouncements about our perspective and experience.
@tkinias@historians.social
It surprises me how people post on social media then get huffy when someone comments like social media was designed for!