Seasonal depression.. in summer?

Helloo everyone!

As you’ll read this, i’ll be on my trip to another province- which will no doubt help me with this thing we’re gonna talk about in this post!

Seasonal depression starts usually in winter time, specifically in the northen hemisphere, as we get less sun & vitamin D as out weather is more grey and cold.

However; I’ve been feeling the glimpse of it lately.. not to mention that i’m serving people not only at work but at home too- having my mother & 3 animals to care about. The compassion fatigue is real on this one; most days I feel like staying curled in bed with the cover up my head and dissapear for a while 😅

Summer as a season is so overrated.. growing up, it was the few months off that we had, and everywhere in books and movie it’s so magical! The reality when you hit adulthood is quite different..

Ofcourse you can get a few weeks of vacation from work, usually.. but it’s not all that it’s used to be. As an adult, we get rent and all those things we have to pay as of which thankfully I don’t have much than my pet’s need, so we can’t really afford to do much 😅 appart from that, we do spend our summer working, just like any other seasons. Though loving my evenings 1-8, it’s true that by the time I get home, I won’t be going out again; Not to mention that in my city almost everything is closed by 9pm anyway.

Another thing against me is my lack of friendship; though glad for the two I have. While my bestfriend is generally living her life with her almost 3yo daughter in another town- the other one is my coworker. When we’re not working together she’s busy with other things, you know 😅 (or she’ll be working as i’m off and opposite)

While i’m more for touristic, ice cream parlor & shops, mother is more fully immerse in landscape taking pictures in the car.. and I hate driving 🙈 you see the problem? And no we can’t do both as we have one single car, the other one is for dad’s work transportation and has an oil leak (and isn’t comfortable). Both myself and my mother has ran into the same problem.. nobody speaks anymore! We both have very few friends, and my aunt that lives up the street included, everyone seems busy with other stuff and won’t answer their DMs- so we’re both lonely in different ways. While I get to atleast leave the house to work, go to the vet & petshop, she stays home all week with my pets.

Have you felt the same?
Did you found anything to help?