Seasonally affected anyone?

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Yes, definitely! I am really only starting to recognize how much the changing of the seasons affect me.

I feel infinitely happier and more peaceful when the weather is summery. It has been in the 80's here the past few days and I feel soooo much happier than I have the past few months. I'm not sure it really has much to do with the literal sunshine because I work indoors all day and therefore get the same amount of (non)sun all year. It's just.. the feeling in the air. The air feels lighter and everything smells fresh and it just makes me feel so relaxed and takes me back to lazy summer days as a kid with no responsibilities. Makes me feel like I want to go lay in a hammock or climb a tree and take a nap.

I take a vitamin supplement daily as I have heard this could be a vitamin D deficiency but it hasn't seemed to make much of a difference.

I would really like to cure this yearly mood swing especially since I am planning a move to a much more northern location soon so the summers will be shorter and the winters colder. I am unsure how this will affect my mood but it doesn't seem good

It is possibly of relevance to note that my first marriage lasted about a year and I came to my breaking point in winter. Don't get me wrong, it was a terrible marriage rain or shine. But I am thinking that I personally am more prone to unhappiness, depression, and short of patience in the winter time. After the winter my marriage ended, I spent a wonderful happy summer with my new partner whom I have been fighting more with during this winter. Connections or coincidences?

allergies. Spring is hell for me.

Same.

Seattle winters are hell for me, it's a solid 6 months of gray and it doesn't even have the decency to snow. I take vitamin D and that helps, but what really helps me is to do things that I associate with warmer climates, mostly of a culinary nature. I cook lots of Mexican and Caribbean foods and go heavy on the chile and lime, bundle up and smoke cigars outside when it's sunny but still cold, and generally try to trick myself into ignoring the steel gray sky. Anyone who's ever lived in this area can tell you, during the winter the sky seriously looks like the above-ground scenes from the Matrix and Terminator movies, it's truly depressing.

i am thankful by god that it has the decency to NOT snow. some folk see the wonderful, beautiful gray puget sound skies and smile like a fool [that would be me]. i would not live anywhere else. in the army i was stationed in the other washington where the weather was truly depressing, with bone-chilling "cabin fever" cold winters and brutally humid summer nights which stayed hot and sticky for months. just my 2-cents' worth.

I get depressed during winter. I need Sun a lot, and warmth, and birds singing. Sun is making me alive. I've been wondering if I need more vitamin D...?