Summer is my tiardest + depression season ..
Fall is a time for mind refreshing, but not to work..
Winter a happens one + some how it’s calm my feeling down ..here I can do my best ..
Spring it’s as vacation time …I can let my soul gaid me to right things..

May be I feel like that coz I live ..med east Asia

Really it’s so interesting ,,
Thank for everyone..

For 30 years it had always, %100 of the time, has to do with overcast weather and rain for me. The “symptoms” range from very mild to severe. As to the severe symptoms: the most basic is the headache caused by overcast skies and/or rain. Said headache can last for as long as this weather state lasts, it can be severe and unrelieved by medications, often accompanied by days of nausea and vomiting, dizziness and vision problems. A rather unbearable symptom that is difficult to articulate are physical “sensations” brought on by these specific weather conditions. Muscle and joint pain are part of it ( easily relatable) accompanied by what I can only describe as a wired electric feeling throughout the body. Surely that’s not an adequate description as what human being would know what “electricity” in the body would feel like? It’s a sensation that causes the necessity to stretch constantly in order to achieve some seconds of relief. This in turn causes a general mental state of irritability/aggression/ or the mental state causes the physical??? Loud noises become intolerable etc. When symptoms are this severe I find there is nothing to be done but wait it out till the weather pattern passes. However when less severe, or responsive: coffee can help for the migraine type headache, LOTS of cold fluids (preferably water) can greatly help with the muscle and joint pains. For the wired sensation: cold water along with a B complex vitamin and liquid minerals can provide a great measure of relief. Perhaps something like an electrolyte drink will suffice. If at all possible, bar raging headache & vomiting, getting outside to walk, stretch, and breath deeply will help relieve/release some of the tension in order that you may return home and be able to do some sort of meditation.

I do not doubt that, at least in my case, there may likely be unknown contributing factors (female hormone fluctuations probably being one such factor) though I’m not sure. The only fact that remains is that this constellation of symptoms ONLY occur prior to the onset of overcast skies, rains and worse when lightening is involved and they last, to some degree, for the duration of that weather pattern.

If nothing else, I hope this can serve as validation for anyone who experiences this. One other suggestion in dealing with it’s severity is to try to get to a point of acceptance, sleeping more for those two or three days if you can, and knowing that it will eventually pass. In terms of the skepticism you’ve likely encountered from your Dr or more than one Dr. It’s important to remember that you in fact know how your body responds and a physician telling you it’s not possible should not cause you concern or anxiety. Doctors are simply professionals like the rest of us, they are not all knowing and their body of knowledge is based on the accepted research available to them.

In the past one of the most important things a Dr. learned concerned the simple act
of “listening to the patient” in order ascertain a possible diagnosis or research the issue to help the patient. For a host of reasons this is no longer done! We must accept current realities in health care. We’d do well to understand that this profession which is equally an art and a science is now void of the art. The art is now simply to refer the patient to psychiatry or to prescribe psychotropic drugs. So if you are healthy mentally and physically in most other ways and unless your Dr can explain why an antidepressant will treat weather related symptoms then doing the best you can and acceptance is key.

Also, I find the observations of “everythingisweather” in 5/10/09 very fascinating. I will definately keep it in mind.

I grew up in Southeast Asia (ie.year-round: warm, humid and sunny weather with wonderful afternoon thunder storms/seasonal monsoons) and am now living in North Asia (ie. ever changing weather conditions, humidity, rainfall, sunshine, rapidly changing temperatures). So, I can relate to some of the observations made.

I really appreciate the comments made by everyone above. So, thanks. I am checking now on whether, and how, air pressure can influence our mood. Does anyone know?

just wanted 2 know…