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What Is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
2008-03-21 00:00:00 While Seasonal Affective Disorder mildly impacts twenty-five percent of the population, it seriously impacts another five percent of the population. This is a form of natural depression, which normally starts in Sept but peaks in Jan and Feb. It’s easily brushed aside and overlooked. It’s also difficult to diagnose, and may in ...
Help for Seasonal Affective Disorder
2008-01-28 21:01:00 Suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder need not happen if you employ some of these important strategies for keeping your mood and your health sunny in spite of the weather or hours of daylight. Keep your mood and energy up with these helpful tips. More: continued here If you like this post, buy an ad ...
No, It?s Not Seasonal Affective Disorder.
2008-01-23 05:28:00 Heather Ledger was found dead today. 28 years old. It came as a bit of a shock when the ex texted me with the news. Damn. The kid had talent. Why is it always the young, talented kids with the whole of Hollywood in front of them, instead of the ...
The Mom Bomb's Guide to Seasonal Affective Disorder
2008-01-14 15:36:00 This time of year really sticks it to me where it hurts. The lack of sunlight and post-holiday exhaustion make for sluggish energy and emotional malaise. But I will not succumb to the Blahs! No, I will plough through the next months, using nothing but my own special brand of positive self-talk! (And a daily dose of Paxil. Shh. Don't tell anyone.).. What is this "positive self-talk", you ask?
By: The Mom Bomb
Seasonal Affective Disorder: How The Changing Seasons May Affect Your Mood
2008-01-10 23:51:00 What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? While it is true that some people have a sudden urge to sleep and relax at home during the winter months or feel saddened at the onset of darker, colder days, those with seasonal affective disorder experience much more severe feelings. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of disorder in ...
A Quick Post On Dealing With Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
2007-12-27 22:45:00 Today I discovered an excellent Cognitive Science blog: Deric Bownd’s MingBlog. Bownd is a Cognitive Psychologist at the esteemed University of Wisconsin, where he has studied visual cognition for 35 years. If you’re interested in Cognitive Science and CogSci & Society, his blog is definitely worth a look. Anyhow, while reading his blog I discovered a ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
2007-12-10 16:18:00 I have been diligently taking all of the medications prescribed for me and have made some remarkable improvements with my attitude and general demeanor. My quality of life, or should I say my enjoyment of life has improved as well since embarking on this pharmacological treatment path.I've been fighting the onslaught of seasonal depression and attempting to just keep it at bay mostly through denial, which of course works as well as a glass hammer. Since my early teenage years; I have battled with Seasonal Depression that?s robbed me of the enjoyment of the Christmas Season. As the accoutrements of Christmas like decorated trees, houses adorned with multicolored lights, etc, start to appear I try to not even make eye contact with the decorations as they tend to just cause a saddening of my mood and ultimately the joy I see in others brought on by the season causes and equal and opposite reaction in me. I get the feeling of hopelessness instead of joy. Like all the e...
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
2007-11-24 20:17:00 It’s that time of year again, when the leaves fall, the daylight gets short, you spend most of your time indoors, and well…it’s just crappy. Some depressed and bipolar patients experience what is callsed Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). In general, these people experience it every year, which is one of the triggers to detecting you have ...
By: The Bipolar CEO
Staving Off Seasonal Affective Disorder
2007-08-29 09:01:00 Before I talk about one of my best ideas for September--to try and stave off seasonal affective disorder--I' d like to welcome An Untreatable Army BP to our community. Also, in case you didn't know, Howard Freeman of SurfCountry is now writing a new blog, Mead on Manhattan. And Syd from Bipolarity has written a wonderful essay on The Power of Perspective (Part 2) that I recommend to everyone.Okay, since I spent three hours with my mom yesterday when her caregiver, my sister, and I took her to a new doctor who specializes in gerontology (the additional time was spent in drive time and having some tests taken), I'm even more tired than I've been--if that's possible.So, I said to my husband, "Even though it's a stretch financially, can we go to Santa Barbara for two days?" And, saint that he is, he said, "Yes."For those of you who don't live near Los Angeles or even in the United States, Santa Barbara (photo on the right is by Galen R. Frysinger) is just wonderful. Perhaps my fa...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
2007-08-28 09:01:00 Yesterday for the first time, I could feel my mood changing due to the weather. I know that my normal September depression is partially caused by seasonal affective disorder. But I've vowed to stave it off. So, I'm planning fun activities for every day of September.On Fridays I'll be taking my second photography class, Darkroom Photography. The upside is that I'm so excited about it, and I'll be able to spend lots of time outdoors shooting photographs. The downside is that it meets inside for 4 1/2 hours, three of which are spent in the darkroom. So...I plan on sandwiching the class between different outdoor exercise programs--in order to minimize the effect of spending so much time indoors.On Friday mornings, I plan on walking 3.2 miles around my neighborhood park. In the afternoons after class, I plan on swimming laps at the Santa Monica College Swim Center. As you can see by the photograph, it's a great place.Also, I'm reading this wonderful book, French Women Don't Get ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
2007-08-02 09:01:00 Yesterday was the first day that I could truly feel the difference in my mood. While I had a lovely day and got a lot accomplished, by dinner time, I was dragging. For the first time in months I had to force myself to take my dogs for their evening walk.It's not clear to me how much of this is due to the fact that I've spent most of the last two weeks indoors working on my manuscript. While I try to limit my writing and editing work to six hours at a stretch, the last few days I've worked far longer spells.But...since my goal is to stave off a change of mood in September, I've started developing lists of fun activities for the entire month. Given how important direct sunlight is for me, I'll have to make sure that I'm spending lots of time outside.While I plan on walking every day, I also look forward to my new darkroom photography class, which starts Friday. The upside to the class is that I'm really excited to learn a new skill. The downside is that it meets for 4 1/2 hou...
Seasonal Affective Disorder - The Basics [A Blog Around The Clock]
2007-07-22 10:56:00 This is an appropriate time of year for this post (February 05, 2006)… Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/136-191338/seasonal_affective_disor-der_th_1.php
Dear Carla (Part 3)
2007-07-11 17:24:00 Dear Carla,I'm responding to the question you pose in your comments to part 2. After a number of years of experiencing depressive episodes in April and October, I decided that the seasonal element was important even though my doctors didn't. I researched Seasonal Affective Disorder and I read Winter Blues by Norman Rosenthal M.D., one of the the foremost experts on SAD. These days, you can find all this online. When you read more, you'll learn that some people experience summer depressions like yours; others experience spring-fall ones like I used to, and there are lots of different combinations as well. I tried using a 10,000 Lux light but it didn't help. But for some people, light therapy is very effective.A few years ago, I read that in addition to the change in seasons, these depressions may be caused by "anniversaries" of events. The trigger for the April depression was obvious. That's when I started college in 1968 and within five weeks, my first depressive episode...
What If Human Hibernation Was Okay?
2007-05-03 09:10:00 I've often thought that maybe those of us who suffer from seasonal depression aren't truly sick at all. Perhaps we're just a slightly different species. Within the animal kingdom, I'm can't imagine that lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes and others go around criticizing black bears, badgers, bats, chipmunks, fat-tailed lemurs, ground squirrels, hamsters, woodchucks, prairie dogs, and raccoons just because they go to sleep for a couple of months in the winter and awaken in the spring.Why do we get such grief for similar behavior? What if it wasn't considered a bad thing to just need a brief respite each year? What if we knew that it was okay to eat more, gain a little weight, prepare to have a long snooze, and awaken in the spring when it's sunny and nice?Bears prepare themselves. They rake leaves, twigs, and other plants to make a nest of sorts. They make dens in burrows, caves, hallowed-out trees, and crevices. They go to sleep with their loved ones, and wake up month...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
2007-05-02 18:18:00 One of the preeminent authorities on Seasonal Affective Disorder, SAD, is Dr. Norman Rosenthal, author of Winter Blues: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder. Joining a group of colleagues at the National Institutes of Mental Health, he began pioneering studies about this illness in the early 1980's.What's interesting about Rosenthal is that he, too, suffered from a seasonal illness. When he left Johannesburg, South Africa for New York to attend medical school, he suddenly found that "the long summer days were a source of endless delight and the short, dark winter days brought a dreariness of spirit that was alien and mysterious." The treatment that Rosenthal and his colleagues offered was "light therapy."In an article from 2002 0n his website, Rosenthal writes, "In the past few years pharmaceutical companies have joined in the effort to find new angles for treating and preventing SAD. This is an extremely welcome development because it highlights SAD as...
Maybe I have Seasonal Affective Disorder in Reverse
2007-04-21 18:21:00 Whenever the sun is shining I tend to stay indoors, and when the weather is crap I go out. The weather here in Britain has been lovely this week, and as usual the British public has done its best to enjoy it to the utmost. (All except me of course.) My parents went out and left me alone at home today, so I just ended up rearranging and tidying things in my room. The books which can't fit into my bookcase were getting in my way so I've moved them all behind my bedroom door. The first two columns from the left are my to read piles (apart from a few dvds), and the third column is made up of books I've read. You might notice that I've found that book that I had misplaced last week...Ahmed asked me to go to that Asian gay club again last night, but I declined because I was still feeling a bit rough. My monthly feminine penance revisited me this week, and with the cold that I've been fighting off I felt I probably wouldn't be up for a wild night of fighting off my adoring fans.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Understand The Cause And Cure The Symptoms Nat
1969-12-31 19:00:00 SAD, otherwise known as ’seasonal affective disorder’, is systemic in nature, and this condition can affect anywhere from 5 to 25 percent of the American population. The symptoms can range from a relatively mild subtype form, of which affects a larger number of people and is commonly known as the ‘winter blues’, to more ...
Do You Have Seasonal Affective Disorder?
1969-12-31 19:00:00 Just like fibromylagia,and ADD (attention deficit disorder), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a hard to diagnose and easily disregarded or overlooked condition or form of depression. Some people get the winter blues. Some just feel sluggish and have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. But, for some it is a serious, ...
Holiday Season Depression can be caused by Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Have you noticed that you've got your pj's on by 7pm due to an overwhelming desire to sleep? After those heavenly 10 hours in oblivian, do you continue to feel lethargic and feel you may need another 10? What about your intake of carbs - are you becoming an eating ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Understand The Cause And Cure The Symptoms Nat
0000-00-00 00:00:00 SAD, otherwise known as ’seasonal affective disorder’, is systemic in nature, and this condition can affect anywhere from 5 to 25 percent of the American population. The symptoms can range from a relatively mild subtype form, of which affects a larger number of people and is commonly known as the ‘winter blues’, to more ...
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Do You Have Seasonal Affective Disorder?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Just like fibromylagia,and ADD (attention deficit disorder), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a hard to diagnose and easily disregarded or overlooked condition or form of depression. Some people get the winter blues. Some just feel sluggish and have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. But, for some it is a serious, ...
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