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News items on 'Seasonal Affective Disorder'
I used to dread the winter months
(Daily Express 22/09/2009)
WHEN Ali Campbell used to head off to Jamaica each winter it wasn%u2019t just to feel the reggae vibe that infused the music of his former band UB40. He also went for some much-needed sun as he has suffered from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) for as long as he can remember. A type of winter depression, SAD strikes from September until April and peaks during mid-winter. Symptoms, which include lethargy, sleep problems, overeating and irritability.
Health advice: Seasonal Affective Disorder
(Telegraph 17/02/2009)
Every year around this time I start to feel a low-level depression coming on. I feel lethargic, miserable and pessimistic about the year ahead and find it hard to motivate myself to do anything except drag myself into work. I don't know whether it's seasonal affective disorder, or something more serious, but I really feel stuck in a rut and don't know what to do.
How to wake up to the sun without being late for work
(The Independent 25/10/2008)
The turning back of the clocks tonight marks the descent into winter, bringing with it shorter days, darker evenings, and a condition that a rapidly increasing number of people now dread all year: seasonal affective disorder - SAD. Figures reveal that up to four million people in the UK may now be affected by SAD - up from 500,000 a decade ago.
Is there any such thing as the winter blues? Experts shed new light on SAD condition
(Daily Mail 20/10/2008)
Norwegian psychiatrist Vidje Hansen, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tromso, has just published a paper entitled 'What is this thing called SAD?' in which he claims there's no evidence for it. He explains: 'If you were going to find SAD anywhere, it would be here in Norway, where we have no sun for two months of the year.
Dreading the long cold nights ahead? One in four Britons suffer winter blues
(Daily Mail 04/09/2008)
If you are dreading the longer nights and cold weather of winter, you may be comforted to hear that you are not alone.
Brain chemistry winter blues link
(BBC 02/09/2008)
Scientists have pinpointed seasonal changes in brain chemistry which may cause some people to get the winter blues.
Why we really are sad when weather's bad
(The Independent 02/09/2008)
As summer ends - what summer? - and the nights draw in, many people returning to work after the holidays have nothing to look forward to but a long winter of the soul.
Light therapy company says that poor weather this summer could trigger increase in depression
(The Scotsman 19/08/2008)
SCOTLAND'S miserable summer has triggered a surge in winter depression, according to new figures published yesterday.
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