I find this really surprising, based on the anecdote of me. I turn into Eeyore when it gets dark out early in the day during normal time. I don't mean just moody, like really depressed.
That's not unheard of, just pretty rare. Some people with SAD need light therapy in the evening, but it's not very common. Have you talked to a doctor? Tried a light box? It's such a simple thing, but it really helped me.
Have you tried melatonin to help her fall asleep at her normal time when we spring forward? I find that my kids respond really well to it and only need it for a night or two before they adjust to the time change. It makes Monday morning so much easier
I have not. The problem is not that she has trouble falling asleep but rather that at 6 she still needs 12 hours and we don't have time for her to go to bed at 6:45. And that her natural wake up time is 8 no matter what time she goes to bed and school starts at 8.
I'm sorry! I hope you get through the week without too many tears.
I have not. The problem is not that she has trouble falling asleep but rather that at 6 she still needs 12 hours and we don't have time for her to go to bed at 6:45. And that her natural wake up time is 8 no matter what time she goes to bed and school starts at 8.
I'm sorry! I hope you get through the week without too many tears.
Thank you! She will be okay, just really hard for her! And to add stress tomorrow is my first day back at work. :::yawns:::
I find this really surprising, based on the anecdote of me. I turn into Eeyore when it gets dark out early in the day during normal time. I don't mean just moody, like really depressed.
Make that a case study of two. I get seasonal depression really bad - as in I need heavy medication to make it through the last few months. Having hours of daylight after work, when I can actually go outside to take advantage of it, makes a huge difference for me.
DST year-round please and thanks. As I've said before, having sunlight in the morning means nothing to me. I'm getting ready for work and then I'm at work. Having sunlight in the evening when I am actually able to move about the world is much more helpful to my psyche and spirit.
See, I've always gone in to work early. I'd much rather have it light when I leave the house at 7am. I don't care about evening light. It means nothing to me.
I'm with you. To leave my house every morning I have to turn left onto a very busy backed-up traffic nightmare. And it's usually pouring rain from Nov-April. I'd much prefer leaving in the light so at least I can see.
I live for DST! My mood improves enormously due to more sunlight after work. I'd love to see some studies on how the time changes correlate with seasonal affective disorder.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Mar 13, 2016 14:48:31 GMT -5
Maybe it's at least partially because I grew up in northern MN whee it wasn't uncommon for it to be getting dark on my way home from school in the winte, but I literally know no people irl that prefer it to be dark in the morning.
H and I were just talking about all of the fun night things we can no longer do with the kids because of daylight savings, lol.
Movies outside at night? Fire pit? Flashlight tag? The sun sets too late now
On the flip side, there are a shitton of things I can do with my kids outside now that I'll get home before it's dark and the odd things in the woods around my house start making creepy as fuck noises.
Post by Dumbledork on Mar 13, 2016 19:56:55 GMT -5
My kid has to go to sleep at 7:30 in order to get enough sleep and be up at 6am for school. It took her an extra 45 minutes to get to bed tonight because "The sun is still up!!"
No. Go to bed.
The last 3.5 months of the school year always suck because she has such a hard time going to sleep when she needs to and isn't rested enough in the morning.
Plus, at work, the playground equipment is never dry enough for the kids to play on because the sun hasn't been out long enough.
Maybe it's at least partially because I grew up in northern MN whee it wasn't uncommon for it to be getting dark on my way home from school in the winte, but I literally know no people irl that prefer it to be dark in the morning.
Well, now you know at least 30+ based on those who liked my first comment about DST year-round.
I think part of this might be regional and hsve to do with your particular location within a time zone. I don't know anyone irl who prefers morning darkness either.
I think part of this might be regional and hsve to do with your particular location within a time zone. I don't know anyone irl who prefers morning darkness either.
I guess. I don't know anyone anywhere who prefers darkness when they leave work.
But, I tell y'all every time we have these discussions, that I don't care what you want. I want DST year-round. That's what makes me happy. That's what I want. I want some light so that I can go sit on a patio with friends and drink, or go down the National Mall and walk around, or play kick ball, or ride my bike or do anything other than move around in the dark like a vampire.
Can't do that stuff anyway in the winter - even if we extended DST - because the sun would set at 5 instead of 4 plus it's cold and snowy. That's why I think it might be regional. It's going to be dark when ppl leave work at 5 pm in the winter regardless of EDT or EST.
You do you. I'll just continue to advocate for the opposite.
Yes!!! I'm writing my elected officials to support this! Lol.
I haven't had to wake the kids yet, and it was a shock to the system when my alarm went off in the pitch black this morning, but being able to take the kids out to the playground at 6 pm yesterday made up for it. Loving the time change!
I wonder if some of my love of DST is also just purely psychological/end of kids in winter type thing. I mean, even if it was still light out at 6pm in January I still wouldn't be able to go to the playground with them because it would be -20 degrees with ice all over it. It's been such an unusually warm March that it feels even more freeing than usual this year - I'm so sick of being inside the house at the end of winter and DST feels like we are being released into the sane world again, lol.
I hate it because it's March and still light out when I went to bed last night (sunset at 7:49 pm, but still light after 8 pm). As an early to bed early to rise person I hate going to bed when it's light and then it staying dark for hours after waking up. I'm on the very western edge of the time zone.
I guess. I don't know anyone anywhere who prefers darkness when they leave work.
But, I tell y'all every time we have these discussions, that I don't care what you want. I want DST year-round. That's what makes me happy. That's what I want. I want some light so that I can go sit on a patio with friends and drink, or go down the National Mall and walk around, or play kick ball, or ride my bike or do anything other than move around in the dark like a vampire.
Can't do that stuff anyway in the winter - even if we extended DST - because the sun would set at 5 instead of 4 plus it's cold and snowy. That's why I think it might be regional. It's going to be dark when ppl leave work at 5 pm in the winter regardless of EDT or EST.
You do you. I'll just continue to advocate for the opposite.
Uh uh. You can still get outdoors in the winter even if its cold out and do fun things. But NOOOOO, it has to get dark in the evening before I even get home from work, so I am stuck indoors. I do run at night, even in the winter and that is still depressing. Even just going places in the evening is rough when it feels like midnight at 6pm. DST for life!
I also read yesterday that fatal traffic accidents increase by 17% the week after daylight savings time. Disrupted sleep schedules and different dark/light conditions etc.
Daylight saving time could increase the risk of having a stroke.
The bi-annual event of changing the clocks by one hour may be connected to a higher rate of ischemic strokes, according to researchers which is the most common type of stroke.
Ischemic strokes account for 85 per cent of all strokes and occurs when a blood clot blocks oxygen carrying blood to the brain.
Sleeping too little or too much 'can increase stroke risk'
Doctor Jori Ruuskanen, of the University of Turku in Finland and author of the research, said his team looked at the risks of daylight saving time in connection with strokes after previous studies have shown disruptions in a person's body clock increases the risk of ischemic stroke.
The researchers used ten years’ worth of figures to find the rate of strokes in Finland.
Data from 3,033 people hospitalised during the week following daylight saving time was compared with the rate of stroke in 11,801 people who were admitted to hospital two weeks before or two weeks after the clock change.
The results showed during the first two days after a daylight saving transition, the rate of ischemic strokes were eight per cent higher.
Following another two days, these rates reduced to normal.
People with cancer are 25 per cent more likely to have a stroke after the clocks changes, as are people aged over 65, who are 20 per cent more at risk of having a stroke in the transition period.
Dr Ruuskanen added: “Further studies must now be done to better understand the relationship between these transitions and stroke risk and to find out if there are ways to reduce that risk.”
Daylight saving time was first introduced in 1907 by William Willett in a bid to make more use of the longer days.