If possible, spending 15 minutes a day outdoors dramatically helps your mental health - provided outdoor is not a hellscape. Commuting by car or bus doesn’t count, but bike does.
I work in a cold, windowless environment every day. That part of it sucks, but I also live in a generally warm to hot climate. This means that almost every single day during my lunch break, I sit outside and eat to bathe in the glow of the sun. I look forward to that part of my day every day.
I have a core temp that is pretty much a full degree cooler than normal. Apparently this is very much on the outside of the typical range for humans, and my last GP (now retired) thinks it came about due to a heat exhaustion event when I was 18 that shut down my kidneys and did a bunch of other system reset things.
So when the temps get anywhere above about 20-24, my ability to work outside starts to crater. Not only do I sweat like a mofo as my body desperately tries to cool itself - think totally drenched and physically dripping like a leaky faucet by the time most people start getting moist on their foreheads - but that sweat pours off of my head and into my eyes, forcing me to stop what I am doing and towel my entire head off every 5-15 minutes.
And yes, this happens at 25℃. Like, fuck me.
And even though I’m all the way up here in Canada, I’m in it’s only semi-arid desert. You know, the one that nearly cracked 50℃ in that PNW heat dome a few years back. Summer temps - thanks to climate change - have gone from 28-35℃ heatwaves for 3-5 days at a time in the 80s, to 35-45℃ heatwaves for two to three weeks at a time today. And they frequently come back for encores.
Which means that I am stuck inside, where there is AC to keep me alive, for a large proportion of the summer. When I want nothing more than to get outside and get shit done around the house while there is oodles of daylight available to get it done in.
Climate change is going to be hell on me over the next few decades, especially if the scientific modelling/projections of total civilizational collapse (World2 models, especially the 2021 & 2024 confirmations) by about 2040-2050 actually come to pass. RIP electricity for AC likely also means RIP my ability to be alive in the summer.
I think my depression is getting worse. I suffered a humiliating rejection recently. Took time off work, paid a bunch of money to travel across the country to meet a woman whom I thought was going to be my next wife. We had talked for months, some really deep stuff, we seemed like a perfect match. I get there, and she reveals that actually, she has 4 kids, two different dead-beat baby-daddies, and chlamydia.
I took PTO. Week off work. over a thousand dollars on air travel, lodging, and a rental car.
It's been a few weeks and I still feel awful. The other day in my sacred space, the gym, I thought about killing myself when I should have been at the height of an exercise-induced dopamine rush.
This is my favorite time of the year, fall, Halloween, candy. But I can't enjoy any of it. The only feeling I have is dread. For another holiday season, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, all spent alone. If I make it to next year it'll be a miracle. I think I need to find a good in-person AA meeting or something.
Right? There's a seasonal depression for every season.
Ya got your high pollen count depression season, your hot poolside barbecue depression season, your pumpkin spice depression season, and your cold religious holiday depression season.
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should take some vitamins like d. Humans arent made for sitting indoors 24/7.
If possible, spending 15 minutes a day outdoors dramatically helps your mental health - provided outdoor is not a hellscape. Commuting by car or bus doesn’t count, but bike does.
I work in a cold, windowless environment every day. That part of it sucks, but I also live in a generally warm to hot climate. This means that almost every single day during my lunch break, I sit outside and eat to bathe in the glow of the sun. I look forward to that part of my day every day.
I get seasonal depression in the spring. In the fall I get manic.
Yes.
Summer time.
Not being able to go outside without feeling like I'm going to die is depressing.
Can't even have my skylights without their shades drawn, for the death rays got hands. Literally get less sunlight in the summer.
I get frustrated by summer.
I have a core temp that is pretty much a full degree cooler than normal. Apparently this is very much on the outside of the typical range for humans, and my last GP (now retired) thinks it came about due to a heat exhaustion event when I was 18 that shut down my kidneys and did a bunch of other system reset things.
So when the temps get anywhere above about 20-24, my ability to work outside starts to crater. Not only do I sweat like a mofo as my body desperately tries to cool itself - think totally drenched and physically dripping like a leaky faucet by the time most people start getting moist on their foreheads - but that sweat pours off of my head and into my eyes, forcing me to stop what I am doing and towel my entire head off every 5-15 minutes.
And yes, this happens at 25℃. Like, fuck me.
And even though I’m all the way up here in Canada, I’m in it’s only semi-arid desert. You know, the one that nearly cracked 50℃ in that PNW heat dome a few years back. Summer temps - thanks to climate change - have gone from 28-35℃ heatwaves for 3-5 days at a time in the 80s, to 35-45℃ heatwaves for two to three weeks at a time today. And they frequently come back for encores.
Which means that I am stuck inside, where there is AC to keep me alive, for a large proportion of the summer. When I want nothing more than to get outside and get shit done around the house while there is oodles of daylight available to get it done in.
Climate change is going to be hell on me over the next few decades, especially if the scientific modelling/projections of total civilizational collapse (World2 models, especially the 2021 & 2024 confirmations) by about 2040-2050 actually come to pass. RIP electricity for AC likely also means RIP my ability to be alive in the summer.
Fun times.
I think my depression is getting worse. I suffered a humiliating rejection recently. Took time off work, paid a bunch of money to travel across the country to meet a woman whom I thought was going to be my next wife. We had talked for months, some really deep stuff, we seemed like a perfect match. I get there, and she reveals that actually, she has 4 kids, two different dead-beat baby-daddies, and chlamydia.
I took PTO. Week off work. over a thousand dollars on air travel, lodging, and a rental car.
It's been a few weeks and I still feel awful. The other day in my sacred space, the gym, I thought about killing myself when I should have been at the height of an exercise-induced dopamine rush.
This is my favorite time of the year, fall, Halloween, candy. But I can't enjoy any of it. The only feeling I have is dread. For another holiday season, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, all spent alone. If I make it to next year it'll be a miracle. I think I need to find a good in-person AA meeting or something.
It sucks, but being alone is still 100% better than being with the wrong person.
Yeah daytime
As we get into fall, right at the beginning on October where I live, I always get super depressed. I just want to sleep and do nothing else.
Spring, summer, fall, winter.
Right? There's a seasonal depression for every season.
Ya got your high pollen count depression season, your hot poolside barbecue depression season, your pumpkin spice depression season, and your cold religious holiday depression season.
Spring, 'cause hay fever.
You can have seasonal depression in the summertime too
Yes and no...
Getting Seasonal Depression in the summer is literally called Reverse Seasonal Depression Disorder.
Seasonal Depression is a disease that is specific to winter, and less sunlight.