Yes. It is cold, it is miserable, I'm ill, and the holidays are apon you, a time for family, which I hate. I hate the winter. Give me autumn any day!

Sometimes. Shorter days mean ess sunlight and can lead to sensory deprivation. I have been very upbeat this winter.

Absolutely,I feel like a hermit,it is so cold I don't even have the desire to go outside.Very depressing.

Yes, I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. When I was a kid, I used to dream of running away to live in the woods in the spring (that way I'd have enough warm weather to build a proper winter shelter). Every spring I'd change my mind.

Yes. It's so dark! I am only in Virginia, so we get about 9 hours of light each day no matter what. I don't know how people in Alaska, with almost no light in the winter, can stand it. I want to be outside, I want to garden, I want to sit in the sun. I DON'T want to go to work in the dark and come home in the dark and never see the sun all week long! And the winter holidays are really depressing. It's so sad to see the extreme Christianists whining about people being happy, but not happy THEIR way, and then pretending that this proves Christians are oppressed here (where they are over 85% of the population, http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_christian.html and have put their slogans on our money and wedged them into our allegiance pledge). Oh, please. If I wish you a happy holiday and you get mad because I don't specify --which-- holiday, and I don't use what you think are the magic words, really, what am I supposed to think about you? That kind of tyrannical nonsense sucks all the joy right out of the season, and is so pointlessly divisive... it makes the holidays depressing indeed, no matter which one you celebrate. What's a Christianist? Here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0520/p18s04-hfes.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1191826,00.html