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I'll add somewhat of a counterpoint.

I've been somewhat of a nightowl my entire life. I thought that was just how i was and it was in my genetics. There's also some correlation with adhd there according to some studies.

However i managed to be a morning person without strain when i wasn't working for a while and decided to focus on not letting too much light in my eyes in the evening, didn't drink much coffee and went for morning jogs.

It felt like without strain i woke up automatically in the morning and was a real eyeopener.

Sadly it's still a modern society issues feels hard to avoid screens when i have to work and do so much else during the day. Also big seasonal light changes at this lattitude means morning jogs would be in the dark right now if they have to precede work.

Breaking news: Guy on internet reduces an enlightening and constructive article to a triviality.

I'm sorry, but you did it first. I mean, being able to show correlation between variables in a formal, peer-reviewed study is something? What else do you expect scientists to do? This is how science works. You take an assumption, gather data supporting the assumption and establish facts from the assumption. You can't expect researchers to go by anecdotes and vibes when coming up with treatments, can you?

Dunno if the forced cycle makes a difference.

My wife often goes to bed shortly before I get up in the morning, and doesn’t rise until mid afternoon - exhausted, pissed off, tearful, all of it.

There’s zero pressure on her to conform to any particular day/night cycle. By the time she gets up my day is half over, the housework is done, the meals prepared, the business for the day concluded, the kid at school, who I’ll pick up later.

I used to be a night owl, but as she has become more and more nocturnal over the years, I’ve adapted to live on 5 hours of sleep and became an early riser, so I actually get to spend some time with her in the evenings, and am up and ready to deal with the day so she doesn’t have to.

So. I don’t think it’s society. Sure, it’s a sample of precisely 1, but this phenomenon seems to be largely internally driven.

It's quite literally kaamosmasennus as we Finns call it.

Merely losing the sun behind cloud cover for an extended period of time seems to have an effect if not the quite gradual but rapid shortening of available daylight. When the weather reports start including how gray it is today, you know it's the season again.

Increasing your vitamin D3/D6 dosage and being exposed to bright blue light daily helps most people to get through the winter.

I've started using SAD-lamps for this exact reason. I've used it every day from october-april for 2 years and it has benefitted me a lot. I don't feel as bad through winter anymore.

Does something like sun lamps or vitamin D supplements help?

Interestingly I have the opposite thing (living in Poland) - seasonal summer depression, lasting until the darkness sets in. :)

Hitting me right now with the time change, and pitch dark at 6pm. It changes so fast every year.

Happiest two years of my life were in Norway. Summers were way harder imo for circadian rhythm than winters.

I would guess intense bright light in the morning and ideally exposure to peak day UVB on the skin (can be brief)

Same here, I'm so awake after 10... But my kids get up at 6-7 in the morning so I need to change my sleep schedule. Also, everything is designed for early risers, breakfast in hotel, from 6-9. But when I'm on vacation, I sleep till 9.

Same with work, getting to the office at 7 is fine, at 10 is frowned upon.

What helps is circadian lighting, I have homeassistant and it changes the color temperature of my ikea smart lights to yellow in the evening, and white during the day. The yellow lights prepare me for the sleep.

Your little ‘breaking news’ intro is neither funny nor even remotely accurate. Do you always discredit research without even reading articles?

I am so sick or "normal" types whose only argument is that "it's like that". Of course you can't wake up in the morning because you go to sleep late. How come even when I skip a night I still can't sleep Einstein? And this normalness only lasts until their own thing that is not the same as the society.

I've found I prefer time release melatonin as personally I can fall asleep initially but often wake up in a few hours and then can't get back to sleep.

Some other melatonin sleep aids give me the most vivid nightmares, so I definitely think it can be worth trying a couple different options.

Yeah people with depression should just get over it /s