Winter (Scaries) Is Coming

Don't Think with Carla Bezanson

Dear Media

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Snarly Carly, Mental Health, Carla Bezanson, Dear Media

4.9 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt the existential dread roll in as the days get shorter, darker and colder? Same. This one’s about the seasonal spiral: fall nostalgia, missing every ex you’ve ever had, cuffing season desperation, and the black hole feeling of winter depression. From therapy drives to SAD lamps, I break down why the scaries hit so hard, and the small game-plan we can actually try this year, because like it or not, winter is coming, and we’re scared together.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:13.3	All right. What's up, you guys? Welcome to this week's episode of Don't Think,
0:18.9	the podcast for anyone who needs a vacation from their own
0:21.7	brain.
0:23.5	Me.
0:24.6	I'm your host, Carla Banzan, and I will just cut straight to it, okay?
0:29.2	I'm scared.
0:30.9	I mean, I'm always scared, but I'm extra scared right now.
0:34.5	I have a good, solid case of the fall scurries. Fall is literally the
0:41.2	Sunday of the seasons and if you live somewhere where it's nice all year round and you're
0:47.4	like, oh, I love winter because it's not so hot in the winter. It's just nice. I don't know what to
0:53.3	tell you. Maybe you won't relate
0:55.1	to the winter scariest that we're talking about today, but please, for the love of God, stay for the
1:00.7	episode. We need you. We're scared and we're lonely and we're already terrified of a bandit
1:05.4	man and it's getting darker and colder with winter coming. Please don't leave.
1:17.3	But seriously, I think seasonal depression gets its nasty little hooks into people worldwide.
1:18.7	I don't care where you live.
1:25.3	You really don't need to be in any specific place that has terrible seasons to experience the wrath of seasonal depression.
1:29.3	The seasons where I live in Nova Scotia on the East Coast of Canada, they're pretty serious,
1:34.4	okay? They're dire. They're grotesque, most of them. And growing up, I remember my mom would
1:41.0	always be like, I love seasons. It keeps it interesting. Things are always changing. I love seasons. And I'm like, okay, hear me out. If you love them so much, why don't we move somewhere that skips all the shitty ones? How about that? How about just like two seasons, two good ones?
2:02.5	Summer and extra summer.
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