How weather changes can affect your mental health
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By Barbara Field
A variety of factors influence your mental health including weather. While you can’t control the weather, you can learn about how weather and climate might affect you. You can also gain knowledge on how to cope with its negative effects on your mental well-being.
Changes in the seasons can affect our moods. For example, we might associate summer with family vacations and trips to the beach. We therefore have positive expectations when the season arrives. The danger is we might fall into the expectation vs reality trap.
When we meet with bad weather or obstacles such as lack of money to travel, we can become stressed. The reality doesn’t match up with what we had anticipated. Seasonal changes impact our moods and behaviours in complex ways.
While the weather certainly does affect us, it’s good to look at the science about how it influences us so we know how to prepare for these conditions.
Effects of cold temperatures on mental health
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