After more than a month of dreary wet weather (when spring should have been in her element and flip flops enjoying their first outing), everyone I spoke to, whether at work, the school gates or in the supermarket, complained of feeling “down”.
Even the heartiest of souls, never usually prone to SAD or low mood, were feeling the negative effects of a lack of Vitamin D and too much mud. All confirmed that the weather was influencing their mood and therefore their behaviour. I was at the front of the queue researching holidays to exotic places I couldn’t afford, buying a new face serum that claimed it would make me glow and still filling my family’s plates with food to keep the winter bugs at bay (“Not more broccoli, mum!”).
The fact that my mood and behaviour were being partly controlled by dark clouds, coupled with reading alarming newspaper articles on how the poor weather was affecting retail sales in an already tough market, got me digging a little deeper into this phenomena. (more…)
