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...
Every winter I battle SAD along with severe depression and it's kept me in bed for days. I recently moved south, not because of SAD but for other reasons to relocate here. I'm glad I moved here because I used to live in PA, and winters are brutal in the northeast. As if year-round severe depression wasn't enough, SAD just made my life hell. I have only been here a few weeks but when I hear from my friends how crappy it is where I was, it makes me really grateful that I moved when I did.
Did anyone else end of moving bc of SAD or have a move be a happy side effect of getting better?
Wonder if your still coming back an checking in?You must have gone to Fl.,where you’d get the most sun.I know I need to go down there for the winter.I do know it makes a difference,but my family disagrees,with me. Would really like to talk to more people,about ,Sad.All ,I know, is driving down,as soon as hit Ga. my whole body seem to start to feel happier, then just over the Fl. Border, feel the warmth, feel , like life is better,when you are happier. I’m retired homemaker an should have a right to feel happy an warm, an not be made to stay in a place for winter that makes me more depressed ,sad, an just want to stay in bed.