Feeling a bit like the winter blues are getting the best of you, making you sluggish or ‘off’? This feeling is very real and should not be shrugged off as a seasonal funk. It is very important to keep your mood and motivation in check all through the year. In some instances, mood changes are far more serious and can affect how a person feels and thinks and handles daily activities. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression that is characterized by a reoccurring seasonal pattern with symptoms that can last up to four to five months related to the change in seasons. SAD usually begins and ends around the same time each year.
In most cases, Seasonal Affective Disorder moodiness and lack of energy appear during late fall and winter and ease off during the sunnier days of spring and summer. It is far less common but still exists for people to have the opposite affect with symptoms appearing in the spring and summer. In either case, symptoms usually begin slowly and progress with the season. Every person will not experience all these symptoms, and it will depend on which season the symptoms occur.
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