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Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression
Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression: This this will be my 5th year of feeling depress during the month of November. The feelings using slips up around the end of October and c...
Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression
Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Seasonal Depression: This this will be my 5th year of feeling depress during the month of November. The feelings using slips up around the end of October and c...
Seasonal Depression
This this will be my 5th year of feeling depress during the month of November. The feelings using slips up around the end of October and clearly last into the Thanksgiving festivity's.
Rightfully so I realize that because my husband died in the beginning of November and my Mother on Thanksgiving Day feeling their presence should not be usual. But these last years I realize it was so much more that. For me the feeling seem to consume me more than any other time of the year.
The tribulation to feeling thankful was true but foreign in comparison to the pain of sleepless nights, anger and mood swings and just plain deep sadness. For a while I felt like I was making it up. This is truly difficult for a person who is use to being in control, and finding out I can't control everything.
My hopes is this will help someone who in December while everyone is happy they feel crazy because they are not. I does not have to last for months even thought it might feel like it is. It does get better and until next year: I am good and grateful my feeling has a name. Do the winter months get you down more than you think they should? If so, you might have seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Seasonal depression is a mood disorder that happens every year at the same time. A rare form of seasonal depression, known as "summer depression," begins in late spring or early summer and ends in fall. In general, though, seasonal affective disorder starts in fall or winter and ends in spring or early summer.
Causes
While we don't know the exact causes of SAD, some scientists think that certain hormones made deep in the brain trigger attitude-related changes at certain times of year. Experts believe that SAD may be related to these hormonal changes. One theory is that less sunlight during fall and winter leads to the brain making less serotonin, a chemical linked to brain pathways that regulate mood. When nerve cell pathways in the brain that regulate mood don't function normally, the result can be feelings of depression, along with symptoms of fatigue and weight gain.
SAD usually starts in young adulthood and is more common in women than men. Some people with SAD have mild symptoms and feel out of sorts or irritable. Others have worse symptoms that interfere with relationships and work.
Because the lack of enough daylight during wintertime is related to SAD, it's less often found in countries where there's plenty of sunshine year-round.
https://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/seasonal-affective-disorder#1
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