As If This Year Hasn’t Been Bad Enough!! … Along Comes the SAD
“Winter blues” affects many people; here’s how to diagnose yourself
Has your normally-active and fun sex drive seem to have fallen off lately, if not completely disappeared? Do you have less spring in your step these days? How about eating and sleeping: are you doing a LOT of either or both? Has your “get up and go just got up and went”? Do you feel like you want to shut out the world and never leave your home because people are all too annoying to deal with?
If you answer yes to some or all of these questions you may have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is a depressive disorder which mostly occurs during the cold-weather months (though apparently some people get it in the warmer months), in the northern climates, and generally happens more in women than men. Its symptoms are pretty much the same as for depression/depressive disorder.
This information about SAD that I’m going to share comes from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). There are many resources available out there for information for those who want to learn more.
While I realize that all the questions listed above may be true for many people who are cooped up inside — and lacking much social contact — during this year of never-ending shutdowns due to COVID-19, these feelings in…
