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I have a summer seasonal affective disorder. I know it's a bit controversial diagnosis, but I absolutely have a terrible time during summer. It's so bad I start to be increasingly anxious about summer by the end of February because I know it's slowly approaching.

I find daylight to be pleasant like everybody, but after a very short time I start to feel drained as if it was too much. I like cloudy days or when it rains. During summer, I basically don't sleep. Even when the heat is not an issue I just can't sleep.

Lately I've been smiling and laughing more and more; I feel much more at peace. It's always strange to finally feel energized and genuinely happy when most people around me feel the complete opposite.

And then you go to the Arctic circle, look outside in summer, see daylight, see 12:00 on the clock and have no idea which 12 it is...

Where I live it gets dark around 19:00 now. End of December it will be around 18:30. It still leaves me time for a bike ride or a quick hike after work.

Last year in December I was in Poland and at 17:00 it was completely dark outside. The bizarre thing was that it wasn't just getting dark, there was no one outside. Walking outside at 18:00 felt like walking in the middle of the night. I would look out the window, decide it's time to go to bed then look at the clock and see it's 19:00. Pretty depressing.

The cold is fine. The short days absolutely suck.

I don’t know why we ever “fall back”. I dream of a life in which we “spring forward” and stay there forever.

I fucking hate "daylight savings"

I hate how early it gets dark, but I did get the third shift achievement of clocking out at 1:30 am and getting home at 1:20 am this morning, so that's kinda neat.

"I have no such weakness"

• Me living in the equator

For all the people who don't understand how time works.

Noon is supposed to be at 12:00. Let's say someone lives in a place where that is literally true. If they lived on the equator then sunrise would be at 6 am and set at 6 pm. If it is the equinox anywhere on the planet would be sire at 6 am and set at 6 pm.

If they are far enough north or south that the shortest day is 10 hours or less, then the sun will rise at 7 am and set at 5 pm. This includes most of the US and Europe. The sun setting at 5 pm during the winter is normal.

The primary issue, at least in the US is that the typical workday of 9 to 5 or 8 to 5 has 5 hours in the afternoon and only 3 or 4 hours in the morning. Being afternoon heavy means getting dark at 5 seems early, especially after the stupid DST shift making it seem like evenings should have even more sunlight. We basically changed society based on banking hours and are angry that time works the way it does and instead of just shifting working hours to what we want we pretend that the sun is the highest in the sky at 1:00 pm for part of the year for no logical reason.

Really out of the short days bullshit by this point. Good luck northern hemispherers lol

Living abroad and this being so much less extreme really let sink in how much I hate this 😭

Everyone talking about being depressed because it's dark "early"...

I work third shift, this is fine. I'm pissed when I'm getting dressed for work and it's still daylight.