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Do you know about / experience SAD?

JustVJustV Posts: 5,636 Part of The Furniture
in Health & Wellbeing
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?
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  • RiverRiver Community Connector Posts: 4,953 The Mix Elder
    I used to but now I'm just depressed constantly so not anymore :')
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  • AnonymousToeAnonymousToe Posts: 2,752 Boards Guru
    I often struggle more in the winter but I wouldnโ€™t say Iโ€™ve ever been depressed, so who knows
  • JustVJustV Posts: 5,636 Part of The Furniture
    edited September 2024
    Past User wrote: ยป
    Itโ€™s not something I struggle with but I do have one of those day light lamp things. Theyโ€™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: ยป
    I often struggle more in the winter but I wouldnโ€™t say Iโ€™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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  • lunarcat522lunarcat522 Posts: 609 Incredible Poster
    @JustV Our college has some SAD lights in the library which I thought was pretty cool
  • AnonymousToeAnonymousToe Posts: 2,752 Boards Guru
    JustV wrote: ยป
    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 itโ€™s harder to be happy. I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve been depressed just because I imagine actual depression is so much worse than anything Iโ€™ve experienced. Yeah I get hopeless and numb but it doesnโ€™t last forever. Plus I take an antidepressant now (for anxiety) so that makes it even less likely that Iโ€™ll actually be depressed. I donโ€™t know lol
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