Seasonal Affective Disorder Support Group
Seasonal affective disorder, also known as S.A.D., winter depression or the winter blues is an affective, or mood, disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer. The condition in the summer is often referred to as Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder. Seasonal mood...
It may sound strange to be celebrating the shortest day of the year, but I always celebrate the winter solstice because it means we have turned the corner, and the days will be getting longer from here on. Just the thought that the days are getting a bit longer each day helps to make me feel better. The sunset has already begun to get later, which to me is a bigger factor than when the sun rises. The worst is over; things are now improving.
Thanks for the motivation :)
Tomorrow the sun will rise at 8:49!! We then did something you southerners might not understand; loaded our car up with fishing gear, bundled up, and drove out onto the lake. It was a sunnnnnnny day, once the sun came up, and actually bright with reflected light. Bonus; I caught a 9 lb lake trout, a wonderful source of omega 3 and vitamin D. Great how that works out!
We came home and celebrated with a wonderful supper of herbed
lake trout filet. The key is motivation, and having a partner who really understands SADS is a reason for celebration in itself. The days are getting longer, and each day the sun arcs higher in the sky. That gives me hope.