Is there a link between depression and this stupid clock-changing nuisance? http://mentalfloss.com/article/88113/daylight-saving-time-blame-seasonal-depression
So, they are claiming that going back to "normal" time is what is causing their problem? Right now, in the U.S. (November 2), we are about to go out of Daylight Savings time, and back to Standard time (this upcoming weekend). The real problem is the artificiality of time zones.
Interesting. It's the same second all over the world, but night and day differs. Is there a better way to deal with this than existing time zones?
I've got a theory that Autumn's dead fallen leaves give off a chemical that tends to make susceptible people a bit depressed. Plus of course the cold winds and pale sunlight would get on anybody's wick.
Yes, that's got to be part of it. People in places like Alaska and Siberia getting "cabin fever" and becoming depressed must have little to do with daylight savings time.
I don't know if I'm nuts but I actually prefer winter to summer because in winter you can sit at home snug and warm while the cold wind rattles the window panes on dark evenings, and glance at the star-filled sky in all it's glory. By contrast, in summer you get the bloody sun blasting through your windows, you can't sleep on hot nights, and the daylight seems to go on for ever..
Only thing the fall causes me are reminders of going back to school, which always caused me a lot of anxiety. I think this is true for most people.
Yes, that could be another factor. I'll be 71 next month and I still have nightmares that I can't find my locker in high school or that I haven't studied for and exam or can't find the building it's being given in in college.
Yeah the unhappiest 2 years of my life were at one school when I was aged around 12 in the 1960's, and I was always telling my mum I felt ill so that she'd say the magic words "You'd better stay home for a few days then" The whole atmosphere of the place was gloomy and depressing and we had to learn useless stuff like algebra and geometry and french etc which I hated. The teachers were uncaring and sadistic. Eventually I was called into the headmaster's study and he said "I think you'd be happier at another school", he was technically expelling me and i was glad to go. My next school was a paradise by comparison..
