I hate you have to deal with this! I have for years and am always surprised by a) how much I HATE winter and b) how many people enjoy this time of year. Been taking meds plus FMLA for a few years now because when it snows I become almost nonfunctional with fear at times. I have woken up in the middle of May in my bed having a panic attack thinking about winter.
Also, I realized my depression is worse in early December. I blamed it on the holidays. But, what I found out is even though late December is the shortest day of the year sometime around Dec 8-12 is when the earliest sunset is, but the sunrise is also a tad earlier. The latest sunrise is in early-mid January if I remember correctly. So by the time the official start of winter is here we have already had our earliest sunset and are heading back the correct direction on that side of things