Autumn trigger

[Tiffany7147]

I have gotten many of my symptoms under control, but Autumn has been bringing thoughts and feelings back up. The sights, smells, feel, and activities of the Fall make me feel like I'm 6 and helpless and depressed.

Has anyone had success in overcoming a seasonal or similar trigger?

 

[Friday]

For me: Depends on whether it's anniversary or sensory.

Anniversary? Nope. Best I can hope for, to date, is a mild symptom surge. Worst gets gnarly.

Sensory? Hell yes. Drop below the equator, go up an mountain range, sail the islands, doesn't really matter. Remove the sensory triggers (smell of the air, directionality of the wind, length of the day) & voila. Only echo is if I let myself think foo hard on why I am elsewhere. And that's just an echo. Not a trigger.

Don't ask me why I can barely remember my own birthday, but H-hour, D-Day, M-Month is seared into some damn infernal clock & calendar (that does not work on any other area of my freaking life), no matter where I'm at in the world, but it does. Or, at least, it has so far. Always open to changes for the better ;)

 

[Ronin]

I'm more stubborn than my past, & the season won't bring it back.

Repeat until it sinks in.

So far I'm on Year Two with that.

(You see, that's one area I don't have together in my recovery. Going on 'I'm more driven than my past everyone' it is.)

 

[Tinyflame]

I like @Cashew's suggestion too but it doesn't work for me. Could you find something to look forward too in that season, or are there any other positive unrelated things to associate with that season?

Funny, as per triggers (though not anniversaries) I find if I can get over the trigger the actual physical perspective of it changes to me. Can't explain it better, but it's like for example a certain model of a car = a trigger, in one color it looks entirely different than every other color.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Fall brings depression to me because of the shorter days I have seasonal affective disorder which is from lack of sun and the coming holidays are depressing.

I am always so very happy once the holidays have past by. I do not think it is a trigger because I used to love fall. But that was when I had young children.

It is going to be interesting how I manage to navigate this season as I now live alone and an hour away from my remaining family. It happens to so many people.

I take vitamin D and use daylight bulbs in my lamps. If anyone has other suggestions to make it feel better I am listening.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

I have severe SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and am starting to go into it again. Taking extra vitamin D, and using full spectrum light bulbs (Happy Lamp) may help. SAD stinks, I know.