Replies to a question on mental health and temperatures
strangetomato replied to your post “Fellow depressed people: does heat affect you negatively? ”
It’s the opposite for me. I feel like my body temperature rises and falls with my mood, so I am cold and need warmth when depressed and always overheating and irritable when hypomanic. It might be different if I lived in a part of the world with more heat? Mostly it is cold and damp here and the warmer months (all 2.5 of them) are still fairly temperate.
This is interesting, considering everyone else said the opposite, so it might not be the heat itself I am reacting to, but the change of temperature. I live in Sweden, our winters are cold cold cold, but right now we’re having the greatest heatwave for a hundred years, and it’s really getting to me, a lot more than the cold does, which at least I can avoid indoors. Damn our brains messing us up :(
jeeks-sims replied to your post “Fellow depressed people: does heat affect you negatively? ”
Yes. It also ramps up my fibro, which is turn impacts my mood further.
slightlystrangesimmer replied to your post “Fellow depressed people: does heat affect you negatively? ”
I cannot tolerate heat from the sun. It is harder for me to breathe. But what bothers me the most is the brightness. I have to keep my eyes practically shut when I go outside because it hurts me eyed/head, even if I am not directly looking at it. Also I hate sweating.
yetisims replied to your post “Fellow depressed people: does heat affect you negatively? ”
I'd personally say yeah, but i don't know if its supposed to medically speaking, i also sometimes helps my depression too, it really depends on the kind of heat. Heat from the Sun is bad heat, but Water Heat is a lot better, it's usually calming for me at least.
Yeah, I’m not thinking it’s the actual heat, but rather the discomfort. It’s a lot easier to maintain a healthier mental state when you’re physically comfortable, or else it’s just one more thing to add to the problems :(
I am glad to hear I am not the only one who is affected by weather though, it makes me feel better knowing I’m not alone.
