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Weather Blues
October 26th, 2008 @ 1:35 pm

The weather is killing me. We’ve had nothing but dark clouds, rain and gales for over a week and I’m taking painkillers like they are sweets for my headaches. Yesterday, I felt like crap the whole day and watched movies to cheer myself up. Today, I woke up to sunshine and a lighter feeling in my head but it hasn’t lasted. It’s raining again and getting darker. Apparently, temperatures are set to plummet next week too.

Work has been pretty stressful this week but I decided to take a few steps that have thankfully helped. I don’t think they made me very popular but I’m at the stage where I really don’t care. Our team get treated like slaves and I am tired of it. It’s time to take a stand. I didn’t realise how many petty people I worked with though. I don’t know what to do about it. With the recession looming, I’m safer staying where I am and once the pay deal gets thrashed out, I’ll be going up a grade anyway. Speaking of which, there is another strike looming and it is a big one this time. I really don’t want to go out on strike but the last time I went to work, it was a majorly stressful day.

My mum’s going into hospital tonight so I’m going to have more stress to deal with there. It’s nothing serious but I have a bad history of people going into hospital and not coming out, so you can understand how freaked I am. I keep telling myself not to be silly and that it is an entirely different issue (which it is) but my head needs a lot of convincing.

I feel really down just now, like I want to curl up in a corner somewhere. I have loads of things to do but no motivation. I just want to sleep. I’m actually wondering if I have that Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder thing? There was a scientific study done recently that said Scots suffered from very low Vitamin D levels due to a lack of sunshine and this was a contributing factor to higher levels of depression than other countries. Makes you think..

Anyway, my bro and the kids are back from holiday today (in fact they probably already are) and I think the weather is going to be a bit of a shock for them after three weeks in the sunshine. God, I wanna go to New York…

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3 Comments

  1. SwordMama
    said,

    October 26, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    I hope that you feel better soon. I think that is true about the S.A.D. It makes sense with where you live. When I lived in the mountains b4, I felt like I had it in the Fall and Winter. Can vitamin D pills help? I remember someone mentioning sitting under some kind of light, not sure what kind it was… I know milk is good for depression, my old professor told me, because of the vitamin D. I need to dose up on some.

    Sending you lots of hugs! :-)

  2. RennyBA NORWAY
    said,

    October 27, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Living in Norway, I think I can understand what you mean. Fall can be very depressive, wet and dark. We call it weather sickness :-)

    Sorry to hear about your Mom - hope it gets better than you expect (it often do, so don’t give up hope!).

  3. Lifecruiser
    said,

    November 6, 2008 at 12:48 am

    Yeah, I know what you mean with the “winter” weather. I hate it and yet, I know that you have it even worse. Sorry to hear about your headaches and feeling low. I heard that about the D vitamins too. It’s the same over here. Well, it never hurts to eat some. I eat every vitamin, mineral and antioxidants and more, that we need per day. OR drink I should say, because it’s a fluid called Mivitotal Flex. I have been more healthy since I began to drink it, before that I was sick all the time… It gives extra energy too. I was a zombie before that…. *giggles*

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