go go winter depression

you are like a multiplier for normal depression

My plans for today:
Take shower
Do chores I promised would be done my the time my mom gets home
Maybe log in to Lusternia
Start dinner by four

My actual day:
Take nap with cat, before I've even gotten out of bed at all
Log in to Lusternia, just for a minute (I wish)
"Hey, Llesvelt's here, I'll go bother him for a minute"; talk about painting
Daraius shows up; talk about painting
Ileein shows up; "Let's have tea!"
Go see a play (which was super awesome, by the way)
"Oh , it's four o'clock, mom just pulled in, and I haven't done a damn thing!"

It's like this for me, every, single, day.

EDIT: My squee of excitement for HP mafia caused me to pull a muscle in my neck

Car won't start. Yay.

Woke up with a cough and fever. A homeless guy kicked me today. Couldn't afford lunch or dinner, so fasting on coffee until Friday. Phone is getting cut off. Bus pass invalidated by transit security for not carrying a go card. Working a split shift tomorrow. Bullet please.

I hope you stabbed him multiple times a la American Psycho. It's not like anyone would ask questions about a dead bum in the alley.

No more Glee until next February?

Get a huge, and I mean hayooooooouge lamp and turn it on. It ain't much for regular depression, but it works perfectly for winter depressions.

Unless it's Christmas depressions. Those are tougher.

I sit right next to the sliding glass door where a ton of sunlight shines right on me all the time! You'd think it would help. I don't really have space for a big sunny lamp though, my house is pretty cramped. This computer area is just sort of jammed into the corner in the dining room. There's not enough space for everyone at the table, so I eat my dinner on the keyboard tray!

Maybe that's why I'm depressed. I live in a house made for two people with four people jammed into it.

I don't know if this will cheer you up or not, but I'm always slightly amused by the fact that it's called Seasonal Affective Disorder, which, when you look at it's acronym, becomes SAD. Which is really the most appropriate acronym I've ever seen.

Yeah, I know. I try to avoid using it at all times because, well, I did a whole research project on Seasonal Affective Disorder in AP Psych in my senior year of high school, and all anyone did during my presentation was giggle every time SAD was used. High schoolers... -shakefist-

I tried to get the boss to send me home early by claiming I had SAD, but she really does and wouldn't let me.

(Ebola, restless leg syndrome, orthostatic hypertension, and general malaise haven't worked yet either. Damn you nurses!)

What if you're happier in Winter and less happy in summer? Does that still count as SAD?

I'm always really excited when winter rolls around. Love bundling up, love Christmas decorations, love snow, love football.

Hate heat, humidity, and the smell of garbage, which seems to go along with summer.

Man, I'm the same way.

And I just hit my Christmas/Winter happies. >.>

Summer is bummer.

All seasons are nice in their own way. I'm glad they switch though because by the time I'm tired of one, another comes around!

Summer means warmth and outside time and sun and exercise, fall means bright colors, chill mornings and evenings, winter means cold refreshing air in contrast of the warmth of the inside, and a fireplace to enjoy, and snow! and spring means the air is warming up, everything is coming alive again, the days get longer, and spring showers.

I can see how winter can be depressing. After all, I go to work and its dark, I work in my personality-less cubical all day, and I leave and its dark. At the same time, the cold air really gets the blood pumping and its refreshing after a long day in front of the computer. Plus, I've completely recovered from all the snow we had last year and am ready for more!

I have winter depression, a paper due tomorrow that I haven't made progress on, and I'm 3000 miles away from home.

Just slept for 13 1/2 hours. Went to sleep at 3 in the afternoon, woke up at 430 in the morning. Ergh, ok, I'll start taking my iron pills.

I was up last night and then realised the time (3am) and thought 'crap! I need to be up at 7! If I go to sleep now I so wont get up', so what do I do? What does any sensible person do, I pull an all nighter after running out of coffee the previous day.

So it gets to 6am and I'm thinking 'oh this was a bad idea, then, wasn't it?', oh yes it was. But I try and power through, only an hour left to go before I should get up, could even get up earlier. Then I close my eyes for a second and fall asleep for eight hours. In a chair.

I'd really meant to go to lessons today

Edit: I also had two alarms set, neither of which appear to have woken me...

This could have been a profound post, but it can really just be summed up as: "That thing Phoebus said about seasonal depression? Yeah, me too."

Heh, I know how ya feel with winter depression (I work 4pm-mid so I go to work when the sun sets and get home when it's dark). But what helps me is sitting on my bed, sipping tea and listening to some nice trance or techno music.