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SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Redoubtable23 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I started noticing acouiple years ago that darkness really got to me.
dramagrl1996 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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my friend thinks she has it, she's 13...how can she stop it??
AbcSchoolOfPolish (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Very interesting material.
arachne646 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I've heard people with bipolar disorder say that they get manic episodes during the summer. This is when their mood swings to the opposite of depression, with restlessness, anxiety, hyperactivity, they seem like they are on cocaine and they lose their judgement and self-control. I don't know if this is a common pattern, but anyone whose mood changes in a yearly or other pattern needs to see a doctor, not just tough it out, like I did for too long.
arachne646 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Winter depression has a known chemical cause--light stimulates the eye, and the nerve message to the brain releases a chemical called melatonin, which kind of keeps you from going into hibernation in the summer, when you should be out hunting and gathering for the long winter in your cave. It took me a few years to find medications with my psychiatrist to get my hard-to-treat depression partly controlled before we noticed I did better in summer. Light therapy has helped a lot.
Hexachloraphine (5 months ago) Show Hide
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I response to many posts, I believe it will be a Struggle to get the SAD help organisations to properly recognise the summer variant of this condition.

The overall term should be changed...after all the word seasonal can apply to any season, not just winter, but winter blues sufferers (while I acknowledge they suffer) have monopolized the Label.

SAD should be catch-all, but divided into.

W(inter)SAD the more common &
S(ummer)SAD the less common.

that's what I think
naturalist765 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Yeah, I feel sadder during the summer than the winter, I think summer is boring and not as exciting/happy as winter.
JohnyEmpathy (5 months ago) Show Hide
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well that was actually a mistake... I meant to say that I may possibly have summer onset disorder as well

*A loss of appetite
*Weight loss
*Insomnia
*Irritability and anxiety
*Agitation
*Increased sex drive

but I doubt that i have it... because I do not have the anxiety part, and I do not have the agitation as much either...

but I have no doubt in my mind that I have winter-onset disorder because it occured last year, but this year was much worse compared to it.
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well unless its directly related to the summer
you don't have it.

i dont think you can correctly diagnose something like this just by saying you have some the the traits.

but good luck with that.
cluck cluck-- more nasties from your wardrobe
JohnyEmpathy (5 months ago) Show Hide
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well I dont have some of the symptoms from SAD last year I had some of the symptoms I think, Im not sure because my memory is not that good but I do remember having the social withdrawal, carbohydrates craving and sleeping more and more and becoming more and more tired. But this year was extremely worse than last year... I definitely had ALL of the symptoms of Winter Depression this year.

so that is why I have no doubt in my mind that I have SAD.

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