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...
Is it when u get depressed duting a particular season?
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yes, it's a depression. It happens when there is little or no sunlight. We get vitamin D from the sunlight. Without it we feel sad, tired, irritable...and so on. To counteract this I take 1000mg of vitamin D and it seems to help. Also, on the bright, sunny days I spend as much time as I can in the sunlight.
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Ooooh. Vitamin D.. thats a good idea. I should have thought of that sooner.
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
