My summer SAD

[Xyloph...@gmail.com]

I live in isra(h)ell
it's like hell in here
from may (sometimes even april) its 85 deegres and more (100 in the
sun in july august
and this lasts untill late october and sometimes november.
its hardly liveble
its hardly ever rains here and no snow where i live
im jusd dying here by inches
and the funniest thing is that every one else love it!
they go happily to the beach to burn themselves in the 100 deegre sun
everybody goes naked and burned skined and loving it
nobody understands me:(
i try not to leave the house
i can barely go to the supermarket without dying on the way
i can wear only dresses and skirts and sandales or very light pants
i dont understand people wearing jeans or sneakers in this heat
i generally feel like i dont want to live
i just suffer and suffer always with hope of movind to europe or
higher regions here in isra(h)el
last march the 24th ther was such terrible heat wave 100 deegres
i simply cant stand it
and in the winter im me again
but the winter keeps geting short
the global warming will kill us all eventually
its impossible to live here as it is, and with the additional warming
it will be death
i failed in a lot of exams for i couldnt study because of the heat
i missed a lot of friends mittings
i missed going to the luna park in july
i have no life

p.s. sorry if i had spelling mistakes

[Lex Wahl]

I can relate.
I hope you can move soon.

Try to focus on moving to a cooler area.

I have a minor medical condition in which the extreme heat makes me
dizzy and weak.
So when I'm in the middle of a heat wave, I get very nervous that the
air conditioning will fail, and rarely leave the house when it is hot.

Last year I finally moved near the coast where it is 10-20 degrees
cooler (though, I still would like to move to a more cloudy atmosphere).

Good luck and hang in there!
:)
Lex

[Giuliana Torelli]

Any of you suffer from solar hypersensitivity????? It's a horrible rash
when you're out under the sun?????

[Sandi]

You sound so miserable! I can relate. It is not as hot here as where you
live, but it is still unbearable to me. I can't understand how people LOVE
it, and most can't understand why I don't!

I hope you can move soon, too. I moved to the mountains from a much hotter
environment 16 years ago. Still, I find that it gets too hot for me. I do my
best when I live in a house that is well shaded!

Best of luck and take heart! Summer is on its way out!

Sandi
luna...@centurytel.net

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego
ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the
pleasures of others."
~Bertrand Russell

[Sandi]

No major rash, but I find the sun painful on my skin. I used to get heat
rash, which was awful.

Sandi
luna...@centurytel.net

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego
ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the
pleasures of others."
~Bertrand Russell

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[Giuliana Torelli]

I feel the same way..,.I always thought I was a freak, because people
can't wait for summer...and I HATE it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm glad I'm no alone. I line in Monrovia, Ca. which is 10 hotter in
the summer than anywhere else...live with the shades down...I'm happier when
sweater weather starts....and my UGGSSSSSSS...love Ugg weather, that's what
I call it

[Lex Wahl]

I suffered through 7 years in Pasadena, CA (near Monrovia as you know).
I had enough and moved to the coast---when there are clouds, you get
'em here.
I love Pasadena /Monrovia, but it's waaaay too hot for waaaay too long.

[Giuliana Torelli]

I know....I love Monrovia sooo much I have to deal with it however I can. I
go to Cost Rica (where all my family is) all the month of August, and it
rains al month long..and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
Life could be worse, though...we're spoiled!!!!

[sandra hoffer]

I am in Texas, and it is hell from early spring to late fall - sometimes early winter. We will be moving as soon as we can, because I am a prisoner here. I know about everyone else loving the heat and the sun! I get so angry when they describe the zillionth hot sunny day in a row as "beautiful weather" on the news - I want to scream!

Some things that help - air conditioning and lots of it; dark shades on the windows; a sleep mask to put over your eyes for a little while during the day (this just seems to give my brain some peace, when the days are long and the sun is brutal); don't watch the weather forecast

Good luck to you - I hope you can move soon too!

Sandra Hoffer

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Giuliana Torelli <giuliana...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Giuliana Torelli <giuliana...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: My summer SAD

[Saskia]

I moved to the coast this past July, and in the process am discovering how horribly impacted my psyche and body have been by living in what I considered a high heat endurance zone.  I feel like whooping for joy and crying at the same time every day. Crying for all the years I lost to the numbness of Summer SAD, and also overjoyed I'm unraveling again and delighting in life.

 It's a slow process to unwind from so many years of the endurance knotting me up into a miserable ball, hollowing me out like a shell, and squashing all of my senses and creative life.  It sounds like hyperbole but I know you all can understand how much living under the conditions can impact you--while I still have a small touch of Summer SAD now and then, it's like I'm learning how to be happy all over again.  I really recommend anyone who can should move, or find a way to get happy for some of the year (Costa Rica rains sound *wonderful!!!*) because it's just no way to live, and you should be living!!  In hindsight, I would have made the effort to move much much sooner had I realized how much of myself I had lost to being depressed by the weather.

Saskia

[Elizabeth Cohee]

I'm in Northern California - Sonoma County. One would think it would be a
cool nirvana here, but not in August/September. We've got that really hot
thing going on for a couple of weeks now, and since we're in a kind of
drought here, this kind of heat is causing a lot of fires. Even the grapes
are coming in early it's so hot up here.

Anyway, I'm glad you wrote in. For me a very big part of dealing is knowing
others are dealing with the same thing. I used to think it all in my mind
and I would get down on myself for lack of productivity, irritability,
avoiding sun exposure and what not. Not anymore. I pretty much do what
Sandra mentioned, and others also. These small things really work for me.
I also keep an Architectural Digest mag. By my bed - it's an issue with tons
of ocean front cool breezy pictures, pics of shady forest lanes, etc. I
just wander to those places in my mind and it's great. I also keep around a
couple of catalogs devoted to fall/winter items. The fall colors and winter
snow scenes make me happy. Oh, and Ice Cream. That's good too. One of my
mantras in these hot spells is, "This too shall pass." So far it always
has.

Best to you! You're not alone!

Liz

[sandra hoffer]

A couple of other things that I thought of:

Take vacations in cool foggy places during the summer.

Start saving for your move - even if you are only able to put away a tiny amount. Just knowing that you are doing a small part to make that move can help keep you from feeling completely hopeless.

Sandra Hoffer

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Elizabeth Cohee <l...@ramalila.com> wrote:

[Saskia]

That is a really great idea...the saving up..even for the trip...plan it when you're feeling functional in the winter ;-)!  It's true the expense is partly what took me so long to move, also I didn't think my household could function in a smaller (and of course more $$) place, but we are making it work and the happy-factor is a big part of why.  I'm gladly sacrificing some things to pay more rent now.  Of course it had to just get to an extreme before I was willing to realize that the compromises would work.  If you really will it, and plan it, it can happen! 

I regret my summer trip to Seattle this year was not very rainy ;-(  and because of the move we didn't go camping...but giving up the trip this year was worth it! 

Anyone take any lovely cool vacations this summer?? 

I have a wonderful background of a winter scene on my desktop--of a long road with trees covered in snow. I'll try and upload it today to my google group account. 

[Sandi]

Ugh! I used to live in Texas. We lived in Houston until I was 6, then moved
to Boulder, Colorado for 4 years. Then we moved back to Texas, to the Dallas
area. I left Texas and moved to the mountains when I was 18.

I always thought that hating the sun and heat was just the way I was - a
personality thing, plus the fact that I sunburn very easily and cannot tan
so that was an added misery. Most of my life the heat made me incredibly
angry. I just chalked it up to really, really hating it. My grandmother was
the same way, and she had good reason to hate it. She had had a heatstroke
as a child. She grew up having to work outside in the heat.

Living in a cooler climate did not reduce my problems with the heat, but it
did greatly reduce the amount of time I had to deal with it each year. I
also discovered that as long as I lived on the shady side of the hill and
near a creek I was much, much happier. I knew that heat made me angry and
that I did not like bright sunshine, but I didn't make the connection that
the heat and sun were making me depressed for years.

One reason that I didn't make the connection was that for several years
after moving to the mountains, I always lived in the trees and on the shady
side of the hill except for a few times that I moved into town or down the
hill briefly. I always thought the depression was from being in town or at a
lower altitude (or the combination of the two). Then there were the bad
relationships which always got worse when living in those conditions.

I always feel better at higher altitudes than at lower ones, but even living
at high altitude doesn't keep the problems at bay when I can't get enough
shade and when it is hot.

The weather wasn't the only reason I left Texas, but it was the top reason.

Sandi
luna...@centurytel.net

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego
ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the
pleasures of others."
~Bertrand Russell

-----Original Message-----

I am in Texas, and it is hell from early spring to late fall - sometimes
early winter. We will be moving as soon as we can, because I am a prisoner
here. I know about everyone else loving the heat and the sun! I get so angry
when they describe the zillionth hot sunny day in a row as "beautiful
weather" on the news - I want to scream!

Some things that help - air conditioning and lots of it; dark shades on the
windows; a sleep mask to put over your eyes for a little while during the
day (this just seems to give my brain some peace, when the days are long and
the sun is brutal); don't watch the weather forecast

Good luck to you - I hope you can move soon too!

Sandra Hoffer

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[Xyloph...@gmail.com]

Thanks everybody!
I enjoyed reading your replays. Im glad to know im not alone in this.
it's a bit of a problem to move.
In Israel all the center is focus in and around tel aviv (where i
live) also the hottest place in israel. that means that in cooler
areas in the mountains its very difficult to find a job. it will be a
big risk. and im in dilemma now- save money to go abroad or to move to
the north of israel. moving or working abroad is more risk (by abroad
i mean Europe or Canada)

I think we should all move to Skandinavia!

and to think that nobody writes here from India or Africa or the
arabic countries. they suffer from far hotter weather that all of us.
it gets to 120 degrees there sometimes... i would have died!
and in sahara desert it's 130 degrees i heard, and the locals work
there like hell digging salt in the desert in the boiling sun! saw
that one on discovery channel. I cant understand it at all!