I have to tell you, this is normally my least favorite time of year; then as we head into the long, brutal wintertide season, I begin to struggle with my mental health in a significant way.
But yes, I have seasonal affective disorder and it plagues myself and others for the entire chilly season… However, on top of that I struggle with the stress of overcoming horrific snow storms and brutally chilly air temperatures! If you have ever lived through a midwest winter, you understand that the six months of ice chilly air is nothing to sneeze at! For me, the worst section is trying to dig my car out of the driveway when the air temperature is brutally cold.
You cannot bring your forced air oil furnace with you when you have to shovel three feet of snow in the morning! Even once you get back inside, your central heating plan barely seems to make a difference after you have been frozen through and through. And this is why I’m harshly excited for a modern task schedule this year; working remotely this wintertime means that I don’t have to worry about the ice-chilly tundra outside my door each morning. I don’t have to trade my high quality central heating plan for unmanaged sub-zero air temperatures at 5 in the morning. In fact, I get to sit in my cabin in the comfort of my central heating plan for as long as I want. Whenever I decide to go dig my car out of the snow, I can muster up the internal heat to tackle the ice chilly problem; sitting around at my iPad and relying on my central heating plan sounds akin to the most amazing way to spend my winter. For once, I don’t think my seasonal affective disorder is going to be such a large problem like before.