Do you know about / experience SAD?

JustV

Seasonal Affective Disorder (more info here from the NHS, overview below)

NHS wrote:

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that comes and goes in a seasonal pattern.

SAD is sometimes known as "winter depression" because the symptoms are usually more apparent and more severe during the winter.

Some people with SAD may have symptoms during the summer and feel better during the winter.

Anyone here get this? Do you do anything to help with it?

Rose113

I used to but now I'm just depressed constantly so not anymore :')

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AnonymousToe

I often struggle more in the winter but I wouldn’t say I’ve ever been depressed, so who knows

Loz

I think I get it. Well I'm not sure, I just feel like my mood is generally worse in winter. For me nothing really helps, but just ploughing through it and knowing it will pass if that makes sense.

Or doing things I like doing that helps as well.

JustV

Past User wrote: »

It’s not something I struggle with but I do have one of those day light lamp things. They’re suppose to help with sad.

Ah yeah I've seen those! My friend has been telling me to get one for about 5 years, haha.

Does seem like a pattern for people to find it harder to get through Winter, even if you don't bring labels or clinical depression into it. I guess part of that is just the cold and gloom. I feel this too, and I think I've felt it more in my 20's than I did as a teen. Not sure why.

AnonymousToe wrote: »

I often struggle more in the winter but I wouldn’t say I’ve ever been depressed, so who knows

Out of interest, where do you draw the line between depression and 'struggling' as you put it?

lunarcat522

@JustV Our college has some SAD lights in the library which I thought was pretty cool

AnonymousToe

JustV wrote: »

Out of interest, where do you draw the line between depression and 'struggling' as you put it?

I just feel miserable, and get more bothered by little things I suppose. Life is just more effort in the winter and it’s harder to be happy. I don’t think I’ve been depressed just because I imagine actual depression is so much worse than anything I’ve experienced. Yeah I get hopeless and numb but it doesn’t last forever. Plus I take an antidepressant now (for anxiety) so that makes it even less likely that I’ll actually be depressed. I don’t know lol