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star runner 03-03-2012 12:05 AM

summer depression
 
i have bipolar 2 and for the last few years have recognised that i actually get quite depressed in summer (all of my hospital admissions have been around this time) I know a lot of people feel worse in the winter but does anybody else feel the same as me?
now the nights are getting lighter i have an unsettling feeling that things are going to slide again.

roses_for_the_dead 03-03-2012 12:31 AM

i'm the same really, its not that i don't like sun, but i don't like being warm and having very late light nights. That's not just what gets me down, but i am normally a lot worse in the summer, to the extent my family don't like being round me because not only do i get more depressed but i get more angry.

been like this for years, and everytime i say it to a doc they look at me like there's something wrong with me and my only solution as of now is to move to somewhere where summer doesn't really effect it hahah

Mrs Sam 03-03-2012 11:34 AM

I tend to have my worst episodes in the summer. Between April and September is worse for me. Winter just feels a lot safer, although I do like the lighter nights. Plus all my bad anniversaries are summer.

So yeah I agree it's the same for me.

DollyPOP 06-03-2012 10:57 AM

I sometimes find the summer difficult for different reasons because in the past all my low weights/worst patches etc etc admissions have all been in the summer. It's all by coincidence but in the past 7 years about 5 of them have been mental health problem orientated be it because I'm seeing a Dr after waiting for months, I'm starving myself more, I'm more busy, the temperature makes me not want to eat, New things come out, new mental health problems start.

I don't why it is, I think it's just pure coincidence. But I remember the main of my problems starting one summer and since then, bam, most summers.


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