Coping with hot weather

I came back home from now now, it's 5 degree less than yesterday in my bedroom, looks promising, my thoughts are raising already, I hope I'll be able to put reigns on my ADHD at last and do some writing, the story is racing in my head, I can barely keep up with my thoughts

I am so glad you told me, I didn't think of that. It is so helpful to have these cooling down tricks!

I hope that you have a much cooler cycle ride home, that sounds awful. The thing I found most hell on earth ish, when I went out earlier, was the smell of all the trees and plants being scorched, and it is windy here so everything is so dry. I can feel how easy it would be for things to catch fire. We need rain as well as cooler weather.

I about to leave to work, 15min cycling, it's 31C in my bedroom, but I have been outside hour ago, and it's hell on earth

It works surprisingly well, I almost felt chilly at one point. 

I tried soaking a baseball cap in cold water and putting it on, that really helped. I wil ltry the wet top thing that sounds good

Soaking a baseball cap in cold water and then putting it on your head is amazing, really cools your head down

Wearing a wet shirt/top/t-shirt really does seem to help. It seems to be keeping my panic at bay.

I hope you managed to do a bit of sleeping as well as lunaticing.... Only 22 degrees in my bedroom so far (32 outside) but I still felt as though it is an emergency! I keep thinking that some people intentionally heat their homes to this temperature in the winter!

I took my top off, put it in a jug of cold water, squeezed the excess water out and put it back on... it is really helping a lot.  It is cooling and doesn't feel as if I am wearing a wet top. I also wet a strip of fabric with cold water and put that round my head. Maybe it would help you too.

Really struggling with this heat now its becoming a real sensory thing

I've  just came back home from work. 2am and it's 27 degree in my bedroom, begone sleeping, welcome lunaticing I don't think there is a word like that

Survived today.

Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter.  I will cope.

But any more days of heat and I will panic.

How are we all today? 

I agree with you about a Spring or Summer day when it is warm rather than hot.

I also hate fumes on a hot day. In fact I have just experienced someone waiting for about 5 minutes to pick someone up with the engine running and windows open. I thought, that kind of pollution is what contributes to global warming and the exceptionally hot weather.

I kind of get this a bit. When people are celebrating i find it a bit intimidating as I feel there will be pressure for me to join in

It was so interesting reading all the replies and I do feel less alone, I felt like crying when people shared things that they don't like about the hot weather that I can relate to so well. So thank you. I just wanted to add that another reason that I find hot weather difficult to cope with is that I feel as though, because most people like it, it changes the energy of the general public. When it is warm, there are more people out and about and people seem to get more manic and louder. I suffer with very bad social anxiety and find it difficult enough to leave the house as it is but when there is more likely to be groups of people sitting or standing around then it is impossible for me to walk past them. This sounds terrible, but when people are happy, relaxed and friendly, I find them to be scarier and more unpredictable as they are more likely to approach you or speak to you and they are more likely to be in a social mood. People in high spirits and in socialising mode are utterly terrifying to me. I would literally rather sit in an empty room and watch paint drying for a whole month than to spend one day at a festival, carnival or party, especially if it was a hot sunny day! I much prefer it when it is cold and raining, the streets are deserted and anyone that you do meet is scurrying along desperate to get back indoors!

I have never heard anyone say that before and I thought I was alone with that. I really cannot cope with the sound of engine noises, they are indeed atrocious, and worst of all they are almost impossible to escape from. I think I would almost rather listen to someone manually smashing up the road next to me with a sledgehammer than an engine throbbing 'quietly' in the distance! 

Yes, hot weather definitely takes away your ability to control the inside of your house... and that makes me really stressed!

I have always said the same: hot weather drains me and cold weather energises me. I find there is space and freedom in cold weather: in cold weather I come alive. In warm weather I feel trapped and suffocated.

Laying in the sun surrounded by thousands of other people would be a nightmarish scenario for me!

My dream holiday would be to be somewhere cold (with mountains, forests and streams) where I could walk all day without seeing anyone and therefore relax!