I have allergies and with the daylight savings time and the recent stress I have been going through I also have a hard time dealing with the spring time. This year I really have had a hard time dealing since I have just realized that I am dealing with the menopause thing. I had a recent asthma attack that turned into a severe anxiety attack. I am still going through and I can understand the spring depression. No one else understands me and they are just looking at me strange. So I can understand the pain that all you are going through. Please keep me in your prayers.

WAH-HOO... sign me up for the Antarctic settlement!!  I'll be on the first boat out...LOL!!!  

So sorry to hear you're having such a hard time, Denise.  But, I UNDERSTAND, believe me!!  I too had the asthma attack a little over a year ago, and terrible anxiety that came along with it.  I saw a wonderful allergist and I haven't had any trouble in a while now.  I hope you're feeling better soon.

I'm an autumn gal--love the crisp, cool air and the beautiful colors we get here in Wisconsin. I, too, dislike summer--always have, even before meno.  I   hate the dreaded mosquitos and bugs that thrive during this season, as well. Yuk.

I'm with ya Nancy, Spring and fall is all I want out of the seasons. They are both cool and pretty, but up here in the midwest all we get is extremes!  I'd love it if the temps would stay around 65 to 70 but that lasts about a week and then it's right into hot , buggy, summer.  This week it's suppose to be into the 90s. I planted my garden yesterday and just about died!

Hold the boat girls.....i'm coming along!  :o  :o  :o

Hi Ladies its me GGSpring depression, hmm I have it.

I dread spring only because it means summers right behind it.  Allergies is the definition of Spring for me. The heat is what I cannot stand about Summer.

My favorite time is Fall, I absolutely am in love with this time of year.  The peace I feel when I see the leaves start to turn, the air start to chill, its a cozy sensation that comes over me.  I know it sounds weird to some, but when the Fall is over, I get depressed again.  I would like to live in an area that is mild temperature, a place that I can grow beautiful flowers that love cooler temps.  A place where they don't have to run the air conditioners.  Oh geez I'm starting to babble on,,,,anyway I completely understand Spring DepressionGG  :biggrin:

Hey GGcOok, there IS a place where you never have to use air conditioning: So. California beach cities (obviously not the inland areas). San Diego is the best. Gets a little cool in the winter though. Northern Cal. is actually a bit too cold, even in summer. I miss it so much--my husband got transferred to the God-forsaken south (Raleigh) and it's in the 70's for about 5 minutes in the "spring." Also, I am a mosquito magnet, which I never knew because we didn't have them in Huntington Beach (govt. sprayed). So basically, I am indoors for four straight months. Then we get another 5 minutes of 70's in the "fall." But the people living here from New York (about half of our local population) think it's got the greatest weather, just because it rarely snows.

I'm such a whiner.

Word we are looking to leave Northern Calif, due to the High cost of living here.  I live in Vacaville, where it gets very very hot in the summer.  We're looking for a much simpler way of living, and a place that isn't as hot as the desert.  It does sadden me to think that starting over my life, means probably that I have to leave the state where I grew up.  But then again, I do find beauty everywhere, and eagerly await that new part of my life to begin,,,,,GG  :biggrin:

Thanks for all the support on the spring depression. I don't have a computer yet so it is hard to thank everyone for your response. It is better to know that you are not suffering by yourself. I am so glad that I have found all of you.

It absolutely blows me away sometimes, how every single feeling or symptom I have had is shared by others on these boards!!  For years, I had the blues in the spring and summer, and I thought I must be alone in the world.  Everywhere I looked, people were enjoying themselves.  The days were longer, the sunsets lingered forever, you could always walk outside without your shoes........and I felt depressed!  It didn't fit.  

I never told anyone, because I figured it was my age and waning reproductive years that caused the feelings.  For me, winter was rejuvenating.  I love a cold, clear winter day, with fresh snow and a blue, blue sky.  A little cabin in the woods with a plume of smoke coming from the chimney.  Or a Dickens village, right after a snow, people rushing about carrying shopping bags filled with Christmas presents, huddling in little coffee shops to sip from steaming mugs, silvery bells ringing everywhere.  That turned me on........but a warm spring day left me feeling sad.  

I'd see trees loaded with spring blossoms, birds building nests and then flying constantly to and fro, feeding their young.  It was light outside even when I woke up early in the morning.  I'd tell myself to "be happy."      

I figured there must be something wrong with me, so I kept the feelings to myself.  But I was glad when the days started getting shorter in the fall.  I looked forward to putting the clock back, and nobody out at the stream in front of my house, fishing.  They park cars out there all spring and summer, tramping around, with their poles gleaming.  In the late fall and winter, it's too cold and the days are too short, so I can look out there without seeing people, and the view is great.  

It's a relief to know that there are others with spring/summer depression, and there's not something wrong with me because I prefer cold weather.  

My feelings about summer really became noticeable when I entered perimenopause.  At the time, I didn't know it was peri.  I'd sit on my back porch, feeling totally dejected as the warm days came and went.  I never slept well in the heat, and the hot flashes were so bad I felt nauseated and dizzy.  

In the winter, the fragrance of homemade soup fills the house, and I just sleep better at night when the room is cold and I'm snuggled in bed.  

It's late January now, so winter will be on the wane soon, darn it.....I'll be looking forward to Halloween...leaves crunching....Christmas coming!!