Worst Months :0(

What are everyones worst months ? what symptoms you begin to get etc........... I ask because my worst months are = Oct I start to feel "the change" (more anxious for no reason at all, low mood) Nov is bad bad all round , Dec = bad at the begining but getting better at the end , Jan = much better , the end is in sight and for me this means spring is around the corner (albeit long corner!) this month I can start to rebuild my life , work, family etc ......... From then onwards I seem to get better and better ?

For many others though it seems to go on till March, even April :0( am I just weird?

Marky Mark

I start sliding into hibernation mode from the start of September, even if it is sunny the quality of light doesn't seem good enough.

One of the reasons I failed to recognise my SAD in previous years was that I thought SAD was only November thru Feb and I feel like this September thru to April.

This year ive already started going downhill, but the worst months for me are Dec-March, then my brain starts to work again.

I think you are right about that, this is one of the worst Septembers ive ever had and with another 5 or 6 months to go help!

Mmmmm galaxy

Piglet, where do you live? You sound like you have a similar pattern to mine.

Amalthea, I'm in Bristol, England but working in an office I don't get to see the light of day much! Mainly it's dark and manky when I come to work and dark and manky when I leave!

September has been good with quite a lot of sunsune this month. However this week things have suddenly changed for the worse as each day I have been getting worse with Thursday sending me down like a lead baloon. I haven't felt like this since March (oh no here we go again!)
Best
Gavin

HI gavin& Tedbear, welcome to the forum, look forward to reading more of your posts when you feel able

Im not sure whhen my symptoms are at there worst this will be the first year ive been diagnosed and been in awareness of that what was causing the problems. Im hoping now it will be abit easier to control now im aware. But i think that it usually starts around the middle of september with anxiety, depression, confustion, indecisiveness, despair, fatigue, eating, eating, eating! then gets worse till about after christmas when it starts to become lighter. Oh joy.
I can understand how everybody is feeling. We are all sensitive to natures cycles which is so frustrating!!

Glad ive finally managed how to use a computer! ha. Its nice to have a link and share your problems with people that understand.

Hi Barbwaga

I don't think it can be passed down through the family but I did read somewhere that there can be a tendancy that if a person has sad another family member could have it too.

I know a lady who wrote into SADA who had SAD and her dad had had it all his life too. He was never really diagnosed with it and when he died when he was old she found his journal and realised he had been writing in there about his struggle with this "winter demon" for most of his life. it was quite humbling to read. How old is your dad?

I think it's more difficult for the older generation to admit that they are having a problem. Stiff upper lip and all that. They don't tend to believe in all this "light therapy stuff" and it's "mind over matter" They just tend to struggle on don't they. At least you are aware that there may be a problem and can support him and understand how he is feeling. That in itself has got to be a big help to him.

nov-dec-jan-feb

with dec being worst of all

Definitely January the worst..... but has been as early as Nov I have been off work, although I usually manage to keep going until Christmas on adrenaline. By February half term I'm looking forward and gee-ing myself up cos things are getting better usually.

My anxiety and low mood usually sets in late oct/early nov and lasts probably until spring begins but worst month has always been november. It is frustrating tho cos even if I wanted to try hard to be ok and stay positive, the memories and knowledge that our brain holds (if that makes sense) is always there to remind me or perhaps trigger the SAD or would it happen anyway? I don't think any of that made sense?! lol

thanks paulst :-) glad to have joined!

Hi soph welcome, sorry you are feeling ill,many of us have started sad symptoms early this year so you are among friends.

For me November is the worst as like Whistling Pig says once I level off and adapt to the winter me I cope better. It is the transition I find hardest. This year is bad as already sliding quite badly.

On the inheritance thing both me and my Dad have it although I have not been formally diagnosed.

Crimson

My worst months are September through to April - all months are bad but the worst is probs March because at that point the clocks go forward & I expect to feel better but I dont & then I get frustrated and annoyed!

Hey Badwolf, I just love your avatar!

well , its been a grey and miserable last 2 days :0( how is everyone getting along ?
I have been feeling that anxiety smack bang in the middle of my tummy , for no apparent reason ! god I hate that .
Im off to New York next week , so that will be interesting to see if that helps this year or not ? was going to try Melatonin on the flight back , to see if it would re-set my body clock , ie reduce jet lag ? any ideas?

Hope you are all well , the weather here in the UK is set to become warmer and sunnier towards the end of the week :0) so chin up peeps

Marky Mark x

my worst months are nov,dec,jan as soon as the days start to get longer I start to feel better