Weather and depression

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Hi Everyone

I am fairly newish to this forum but I have been lurking.

I've been diagnoised with depression for about 9 months now(although have suffered without help for the last 3 years) and I have found this winter has been the worst for me. All of a sudden I have really began to hate going out in the cold weather especially in the snow and ice. Its also getting to the point where I am finding it really difficult to go out to work and often sit worrying at night about the journey to work the next day and then once at work worry about the journey home and get all jumpy if the temperture drops or if it begins to snow.
Does this sound strange??

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[Ezel]

Hi blue_star, what you're suffering with is probably much more common than you realize it's just something that people don't talk about as they don't realize how many people suffer with it in one form or another.  For example more people are more likely to feel depressed in the winter as the days of light are shorter and also when the days are overcast.  So it does make sense in some cases such as yours that you aren't happy about going out in snow and ice.  I don't like it either but then I have slipped a few times and one occasionally bad enough to bruise my knee.  As I suffer with arthritis it's made me even more wary which gets me down as I don't like feeling like a prisoner in my own home.