Sally Garozzo | Clinical Hypnotherapist Brighton & Online

Everyone talks about the winter blues: grey skies, short days, damp coats, and that familiar British gloom that creeps under the door and sits on your chest.

Far fewer people talk about summer depression.

Because summer is meant to be the easy season, right? Picnics, bare arms, long evenings, flirtation, freedom and Aperol-coloured possibility. Everyone appears to be living inside an advert for joy.

So when summer arrives and your mood drops, it can feel deeply confusing. You may feel anxious, exposed, tired, restless, flat or strangely trapped, as though everyone else received the manual for summer while your nervous system is still rummaging through a drawer full of tangled chargers.

I understand this personally.

For years, I used to experience terrible winter SAD. It was crippling. I was teaching singing at the time, doing lesson after lesson, feeling bored, heavy, tired and depressed. Winter would arrive and something in me would wither.

I explored food, sugar, energy and hab...