It’s that time of year when you start to notice the days are getting shorter, and even though it's still a bajillion degrees outside, you know that seemingly-endless winter is just around the corner. Just like that weird unsettled feeling you get the night before you have to go into work on Monday, the end of summer prompts its own version of the Sunday Scaries: That feeling is called the August Blues, and there are many summer-lovers who experience this strange end-of-summer funk. But there are tons of ways to cope with the August Blues that can help ease the transition into fall.
According to the Cut, the August Blues is this feeling of anxiety and panic summer-lovers experience when summer is coming to a close. Stephen Ferrando, director of psychiatry at Westchester Medical, told the Cut that unlike seasonal affective disorder or SAD, the August Blues is actually fed more by anxiety than it is by depression. In other words, you're more likely to feel anxious than depressed if you're experiencing the August Blues. AKA, it's seriously not a fun time.
If the imminent arrival of September's got you down, there's a few ways you can cope with the August Blues. It doesn't have to be a bummer summer, after all.
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