Summertime Sadness?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Raising a well-behaved child in Israel requires strict discipline and punishment. Today, we will... No, the f*** we will not.
Hello and welcome to Childproof. I'm Gwena Lathland. And I'm Tori Phantom. And I'm tired. Oh, big, big same. This is one of those episodes where we tell you all the things we're doing wrong so you feel better about your parenting.
And by wrong, we do mean heavy with the judgment on ourselves and completely unfairly.
Oh, absolutely. I can look at another mom describing their rough patch, like what's going on, what's hard, what they're struggling with. I'm like, yes, I understand. It's very valid to me. I'm a piece of burning garbage for having even a little bit of struggle or complaint to everyone else.
I'm like, be patient with yourself. It's hard. You're going through so much for me. I'm like, why? No, stop it. Get over it. Anyway, today we're talking about the summer sads.
Normally, we do the emails where we go through your emails. I'm sure that we will generate a whole bunch more emails about the summer sads. Surely. Please be aware. We have to read those. We're two people with summer sads. Please don't trauma dump on us. It will make it worse because then we'll feel bad that we made you think about the bad thing that's happening while we're in the middle of the summer sad.
Full solidarity, though.
Yeah.
For those of you who don't know, summer sad is a real but not super considered seasonal affective disorder. So most of the time, most people affected by seasonal affective disorder, that happens in the winter. That happens because it's cold and humans tend to need to be inside more often. The days are shorter. We get less sunlight. A lot of reasons. The winter is just harder for people to feel good through. There are, however, a small group of people who get seasonal affective disorder at the height of summer.
Yeah, I have a seasonal affective disorder for every season, but I think that's a different thing.
I think that might just be depression, just like generic, the rainbow kind. I've never been diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder. I've never been diagnosed with summer sads. But I do know that summers have always been universally, not just since I was a mom, not just since the tangerine took office, not just when I was a kid. I did not like summers. um i liked being in school i liked with my books the summers were boring and also i grew up really poor so summers were not vacation times literally summers where nothing changed except instead of going to school and having stuff to do i sat at home and watch prices right and soap operas same i've always felt the same way like i grew up on a dirt road on a mountain in the middle of nowhere so
You know, summer was boring. Tons of stuff to do during the summer. No one to talk to. There is no neighborhood. Just alone with the TV because latchkey kids.
Yeah, I have the same social skills I have now, which is to say almost none. I was an undiagnosed, narrow, divergent kid with gifted and talented and weird, quirky stuff that I liked that no one else in the world liked. Everybody liked it. We were just too afraid to say that we liked it. But no, I was super... And then I was an introvert on top of that.
Yeah.
So I just didn't have any friends. I lived in the suburbs. I didn't have any friends.
It's literally like the... feeling we all get that we're afraid to share something we're really passionate about because no one cares about this. No one knows about this. I told my history buff kid, cause she, I was like, do you talk to your friends about this thing that you love? This is like all the books you read. And she's like, no, no one else seems to be in a history. And I'm like, Maybe they would be if someone talked about it. Yeah. They have to have that exposure. And she was like, oh. And that's how we all need to talk to ourselves about the thing that we like.
Yes.
Because there's a good chance people would be interested if we told them about it.
I love Star Trek. But it took me forever to be able to say out loud that I love Star Trek.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:04
2
What is 'summer sad' and how is it different from winter seasonal affective disorder?
6:04–11:33
3
Why do Gwenna and Tori say summers made them feel lonely as kids?
11:33–19:04
4
How did the hosts realize they were both struggling with summertime depression?
19:04–44:37
5
What are signs of functional depression while parenting and when should you seek help?
44:37–45:53