Depression

How to Better Manage your Seasonal Affective Disorder;

With ’spring’ time just about ready to ’sprung’, it’s time to say goodbye to the bitter temperatures, the freezing snow. Time to get rid off those winter bundled layers and, for millions of us, time to get back to “normal” after a season of “SAD” - Seasonal Affective Disorder.

SAD, as in Seasonal Affective Disorder – What distinguishes SAD from other kinds of depressions is its link to the calendar. And what makes SAD unique is not only when it strikes, but also where.

Doctors find that SAD is about two-and-a-half times more common in Pennsylvania and north than it is in, say, Texas or Florida.

That might not be surprising. After all, in Miami winter feels an awful lot like summer. But researchers say it’s not really the temperature that keeps SAD at bay, it’s the light. Winter days in the south are longer than they are in the north.

Source: CBS News

Watch this video about SAD Disorder Management;

A public talk on self-management strategies for seasonal affective disorder (SAD, or winter depression) given by Dr. Erin Michalak from the University of British Columbia at the annual meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (www.sltbr.org) in Vancouver, Canada.

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