... of year many of us (including myself) start to feel the winter blues.  The past few years I have made a few changes to help me from feeling the effects of SAD (seasonal affective disorder).   Here are a couple of tips as part of my anxiety therapy! anxiety relief products, managing anxiety, relieving anxiety, managing depression, relieving stress, ...

For most people, the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. However, they can also bring stress, colds and even depression. There is even a specific type of depression people can get around the winter months (and even summer months in some cases), called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). read more

Many people experience a depression-like state at the same time each year, typically in the fall or winter. It’s a condition called seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and if you experience it, you may feel irritable or morose and your energy is zapped each day. Sometimes called the winter blues, SAD is a very real condition, most often ...

Two articles in today's Wall Street Journal are significant to shift workers. One story is about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and the other's about a new study reporting that men who didn't confront colleagues or bosses who treated them unfairly doubled their risk of heart attack.

... when darkness descends like a heavy blanket beginning in mid-afternoon in much of the country. For some people, it also brings a desire to stay in bed and wait for spring. Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, affects an estimated 6% of Americans, causing depression, lethargy, irritability and a desire to avoid social situations. It can also create an ...

... the privilege of reading this blog. For all of you doubting Thomases, Seasonal Affective Disorder is real. And I have discovered the root of all of the bio-chemical-feedback-loops ... night, and TV addictions. Basically, nowhere good. Seasonal Affective Disorder is very real. And all due to short days and long, long nights. For themacinator, the specifics are thus: we have the inability to go ...

POP QUIZ When the theme song to this soap came on the other day, I said, aloud, to no one, "Oh, for the love of, I can't sit through this today" and hurried to change the channel to something more entertaining, which, in that case, turned out to be an E! True Hollywood Story about someone who was neither famous or connected to Hollywood. a) All My Children b) General Hospital c) The ...

January 2007 (This is a few weeks after the session from part 1). Doctor: So...I've been curious...did you go home for Christmas? M: I did. Since I skipped out on Thanksgiving I felt like I had to go home for Christmas. It's a big thing for The Parents. I was going to feel too bad if I missed it. Doctor: Er. How did it go? M: Usually it's just boring and I feel like a stranger ...

I thoroughly enjoyed the 70° weather this weekend. Spent it in the suburbs with the family. On Sunday, we took the dogs to a dog park by Independence Grove in Gurnee where they were by far the oldest and most frail ones there. They both lost footing on the hill several times, but after Ella fell in the water she woke up a bit and almost seemed young again. It was glorious to be outside in only ...

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