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JustV
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (more info here from the NHS, overview below)
Anyone here get this? Do you do anything to help with it?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.
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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
Or doing things I like doing that helps as well.
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.
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