I naturally sleep about only 6-7 hours in summer, but about 9 hours in winter. I’m okay with that because I’m self-employed and so it’s not a problem with my schedule. However, living in the PNW, the lack of sunlight does impact my mood and energy, despite all the diet and lifestyle efforts. A vacation 🏝️ ☀️ has become a necessity at this point!
Doesn't work in Pacific Northwest..Places where SAD is common don't have the sun, the days are short, and also have low temperatures — there's the conundrum. I doubt SAD is common in the South where it's sunnier and warm, where this is possible.
For the past couple of years from around November to March I have had severe depression. (Im talking suicidal thoughts, constant feelings of hopelessness) but then I only feel like I have a reason to live mid-March. Its gotten to a point that i have a suicide plan that i then ignore until a month in to the next school year. It's not just always feeling gloomy being it's dark out.
Much harder than that. It’s winter now in Australia living in the incessantly vile depressing southern states of Australia, it is NOT the “sunny, surfing, friendly, blue skies” they are moronically putting out on display for tourism:.. it’s a tortures, INCESSANTLY LONG 7 months of pure hell with rain, sometimes weeks on end of non-stop rain, showers, overcast skies, flooding and a heavy lack of daylight. Extreme cold, depressing cold, oppressive you go from it being mild and warm, and the winter hits can change literally within a couple of weeks to then incessantly freezing cold, especially from the putrid Antarctic fronts that move upwards to the southern Australian states leading to freezing disgusting cold long 7 month sudden winters.
I hate it. It’s destroyed all the progress made over summer and autumn. It has barely even started and it already is a losing battle. No medication, no “exercise and get outside” helps one little bit. The only option is to move out away from these disgusting locations and somewhere north and warmer that actually supports normal human brain function. Living 6-7 months every year bed bound is just not an option anymore.
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I naturally sleep about only 6-7 hours in summer, but about 9 hours in winter. I’m okay with that because I’m self-employed and so it’s not a problem with my schedule. However, living in the PNW, the lack of sunlight does impact my mood and energy, despite all the diet and lifestyle efforts. A vacation 🏝️ ☀️ has become a necessity at this point!
Step 1. Move out of the PNW where it's gray, rainy, cold, and gloomy for 8 months lol. But the summers though – ❤❤❤
Is there a podcast on how to manage summer seasonal depression
does infrared sauna help with SAD?
Doesn't work in Pacific Northwest..Places where SAD is common don't have the sun, the days are short, and also have low temperatures — there's the conundrum. I doubt SAD is common in the South where it's sunnier and warm, where this is possible.
What is the whole episode?
Vitamin D!
just ordered a light therapy lamp and started taking vitamin D & k2! hoping for change cause ya girl is struggling
Move to sunny climate
Is it not serotonin that is depleted during SAD? Now it's dopamine? Which one is it. They suggest SSRI
For the past couple of years from around November to March I have had severe depression. (Im talking suicidal thoughts, constant feelings of hopelessness) but then I only feel like I have a reason to live mid-March. Its gotten to a point that i have a suicide plan that i then ignore until a month in to the next school year. It's not just always feeling gloomy being it's dark out.
Too exhausted to do anything! 😢
Much harder than that. It’s winter now in Australia living in the incessantly vile depressing southern states of Australia, it is NOT the “sunny, surfing, friendly, blue skies” they are moronically putting out on display for tourism:.. it’s a tortures, INCESSANTLY LONG 7 months of pure hell with rain, sometimes weeks on end of non-stop rain, showers, overcast skies, flooding and a heavy lack of daylight. Extreme cold, depressing cold, oppressive you go from it being mild and warm, and the winter hits can change literally within a couple of weeks to then incessantly freezing cold, especially from the putrid Antarctic fronts that move upwards to the southern Australian states leading to freezing disgusting cold long 7 month sudden winters.
I hate it. It’s destroyed all the progress made over summer and autumn. It has barely even started and it already is a losing battle. No medication, no “exercise and get outside” helps one little bit. The only option is to move out away from these disgusting locations and somewhere north and warmer that actually supports normal human brain function. Living 6-7 months every year bed bound is just not an option anymore.
Im in uk and its fuckin gloomy 🙂
Fall and winter make me want to blow my head off. Too broke to move