Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a heightening of depression symptoms in either the summer or the winter. This article discusses the author's personal experience with SAD and the challenges it brings.
Each year, as the summer comes to a close, I find myself quite looking forward to winter. I think of all the soups I’ll have, and getting my beloved jumpers out of storage. I think of orange leaves, gorgeous soft scarves, mugs of hot wine, long walks in the park followed by warming back up in front of a roaring pub fire. I look ahead fondly to cosy days and festive nights.
I’m excited, right up until the point it’s actually cold out, and my seasonal depression has swept in on a brisk north easterly wind to mess everything up. Seasonal affective disorder (often referred to as SAD) is a heightening of depression symptoms in either the summer or the winter. Mine arrives around October, and usually doesn’t fully fuck off until March. The sky darkens and I darken, too. The temperature drops and something inside me plummets. When this happens I’m forced to act as a weather vane for my own emotional states, trying to predict which way my mood is going to swing so I can plan accordingly around work and other life obligation
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