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Can cold temperatures affect your mood or make you feel depressed?

I currently live in a huge house that was built for 6, but currently houses 2. We cannot afford to heat said house. As a result, aforementioned house is freezing cold, 24/7. I can see my breath in the unfinished part of our basement. I am currently typing as I sit on a heated bed, bundled under 3 blankets, sipping coffee that would go cold in 10 minutes if I didn't have it sitting on a hot plate. I do know that cold temperatures can affect your joints and such (to what extent, I do not know), which pretty much makes it painful for me to work out or run on a treadmill strenuously or for extended periods of time, but I also find that when I am at home, freezing my ass off, I often feel quite depressed, uninspired, and unmotivated. Could it be the cold? It's very difficult to close things off especially on the main floor of our house, where the only doors are to a study and a bathroom. About 1/3 of the main floor, which can't be sealed from the rest of the house, is like a 40 foot ceiling. There's an open balcony to it the third floor of the house; we keep all the other rooms closed. Our thermostat is adjusted currently to 72 degrees, and I'm still bundled up under blankets. We cannot heat the house like this constantly. We can also not rent the house, since it is for sale and we couldn't feasibly make the money we need to pay mortgage, so, we're basically stuck here till it sells.

Public Comments

1. yes when its cold you feel crap when its sunny your happy i think
2. Yes that is possible. Why don't you rent out the house to a large family that needs it and move to a 2-bedroom flat that you can afford to heat properly?
3. Generally, the amount of sunlight or full spectrum light youget is what works on your moods. You might consider taking some actions to control the temperature situation in your house. Decide what core rooms you need to use for living. Close off the rest, closing all vents, and sealing the doors/windows, even with towels if that is all you have to work with. Cut the drafts, and prevent heat loss through these extra rooms. If the basement is unfinished, do what you can to get an insulating space on the underfloor of the main house. If you think back to the long curtains hanging in houses of days past, they were to help regulate temperature as well. Warm air rises, so keep the warm air in the room you are in by hanging a curtain above the door level, or in hallway areas that goes to the cieling and hangs down a bit, You might have to move the fabric as you move room to room, but the heat will stay in the room more. Insulate and seal your windows. The simple kits with the shrink film cost about $7 to do a large window. You do not even have to heat shrink it, just get it up there and make that insulated air baffle. Hang a valance curtain over your windows, so keep the heat from being siphoned off and through the windows by the cold outside. Wear wool socks and outer wear. The heat retention, even when moist form wet or perspiration is much better than acrylic or cottons. Get a down comforter or feather bed, availalble in king sizes for about $70 if you shop a bit (sportsman's guide online)