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Do you know about / experience SAD?

JustVJustV Community Manager Posts: 5,603 Part of The Furniture
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?
All behaviour is a need trying to be met.
The truth resists simplicity.

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  • Rose113Rose113 Community Champion Posts: 2,531 Boards Guru
    I used to but now I'm just depressed constantly so not anymore :')
    Want to hurt me… go ahead
    Wish to bully me…I’m used to it
    Want to talk crap about me…go on then
    Want to make me cry…feel free
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  • AnonymousToeAnonymousToe Posts: 2,389 Boards Champion
    I often struggle more in the winter but I wouldn’t say I’ve ever been depressed, so who knows
  • JustVJustV Community Manager Posts: 5,603 Part of The Furniture
    edited September 18
    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.
    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?
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    All behaviour is a need trying to be met.
    The truth resists simplicity.
  • lunarcat522lunarcat522 Moderator Posts: 608 Incredible Poster
    @JustV Our college has some SAD lights in the library which I thought was pretty cool
  • AnonymousToeAnonymousToe Posts: 2,389 Boards Champion
    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
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