Is it because the Sun is shining?

[stresspuppy]

In the words of Bjork - "It's Oh so quiet!" - The forum that is and I wonder if there's a correlation between the sunny weather  and some people's anxiety conditions? I know the link between mood and the seasons SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and I do feel less anxious/it being easier to not dwell so much on the negative when the sun shines and with the extra daylight hours. I do think the weather can tend to bring us 'out of ourselves'.

Anyhow, just making conversation and hope if the sunshine has not yet worked it's magic way into your anxious bones yet that it does so soon.

P.S. I do know anxiety is a lot more complex for many than such a simplistic seeming correlate as the sun shining to explain but I'm enjoying the thought of it whilst it lasts  and considering emigration to a sunnier climate 

[ghost of mr bob]

I agree,  I think the sunshine can make a huge difference. It can be the choice between going and not going to something. If it is dark, doomy and rainy then no chance. A little bit of sunshine and you think, hey who knows, it could be good.

But I do know some people find the summer worse than the winter. They find that the general happiness in others makes them feel even more isolated and alone.

[stresspuppy]

Yeah I know it's like when you see couples together when your longing to be in a relationship or seeing a family out when your longing for a child - having it there in front of you can just make it worse!

I guess this is part of the human dilemma to a certain extent and even more so for those who have the added burden of anxiety - we search for the solution/s to magically help ourselves and yet perhaps in this search we forget/or place less importance on the things we already have that makes us happy. If we're lucky enough to be in good health - how unhappy would it make us to lose that sense of being in good health that we often take for granted. Many of us are also lucky to have important people in our lives - family, friends, partners, children and Pets! and yet we often take each other for granted. Yet if that important persons wellbeing is threatened or we were to lose these important connections our worlds would be a far poorer place! I guess I'm talking about a sense of happiness and contentness that can come from counting our blessings. Looking inwards for contentment rather than outwards to other things or people to necessarily be THE solution. I think I must just have a real belief in humans innate abilities and potential.

The following words sum up what I'm trying to say:

"Many run about after happiness like an absent-minded man
hunting for his hat, while it is in his hand or on his head."
James Sharp


Above quote extracted from http://www.livinglifefully.com/happiness.html
 


 

[ghost of mr bob]

Well, call me pedantic, but whereas I would have every sympathy for a man who is looking for his hat while it is on his head, I have absolutely no sympathy for a man who is looking for his hat while it is in his hand, that is just dim-witted. LOOK, it's down there...IN YOUR HAND!!! See what I mean? Dim-witted I say!  

[stresspuppy]

 

[storm chaser]

The Sun Shine is wonderful to see but will only work its magic on me if I let it.  Unfortunately, I am in control of my moods not anything else.
Humans are very clever, even the thick ones.

[stresspuppy]

Hi Storm Chaser,

Welcome to the thread; and I agree that we're in control (as much as we ever can be!) and humans have an innate sense of intuitive intelligence (as we allow ourselves to be). Perhaps what I'm trying to say is that there might be some benefit in giving ourselves a sense of freedom to just 'be' and enjoy whatever external sensations - the smells, sights and sounds that help us explore the internal. I just think it's so important to connect with the external in order to balance our inner world.

I must so obviously be a hippy at heart - no surprise I landed Brighton bound 

[stresspuppy]

Forgot to say thanks for posting Storm Chaser