Winter depression
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8 years ago in #depression by amberyooper (69)
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Winter depression
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Hey @amberyooper! Glad to see you back! I'm just going to say it. Sell all your shit and move to a warmer climate for awhile. Seriously. Hawaii, Arizona, Colorado (300 sunny days per year!). See if it makes a difference. What do you have to lose? Yeah, it won't fix everything, but at least the season changes will be minimal and entirely tolerable. I'm giving it consideration myself.
We have 300+ sunny days per year but that doesn't make the days longer, eh? SAD still happens here. Latitude is what counts for SAD. The sun setting at 16:30 still sucks. 😉
Oh man , it that ever the truth. Gone to work in the dark and home form work in the dark is REALLY hard to handle. I did try a tanning bed once a week from Nov to Feb. It really helped.
Really, I wouldn't have thought of a tanning bed!
Oh, believe me, I've thought a lot about moving to a better climate. I don't know if I could afford to live out there on my social security income, it's not all that much.
I hear ya...
same feelings here also for me buddy... but not for the winter but for the low price and also crypto crush. this 2 weeks are too bad that i almost absent from the steemit and also from the community...
I empathize: I also have the one-two punch of major clinical depression + SAD making things worse. I've been trying to get myself to accomplish at least some things so I don't feel like a useless lump, but some days it just doesn't happen.
Yesterday and today it's snowing, and my pedestrian arse has been staying inside.
I certainly understand about snow days. :-)
I think the ability to get outside without the air hurting my face helps my mood in a positive way also. When it's 10 degrees, I really don't want to leave the house, but when it's closer to freezing, or above, I'm a bit more willing to go out of the house. If we get an above freezing sunny day this time of the year, I'll go out to the greenhouse to see how warm it is and to just wander around a bit. It seems to help my mood.
So sorry to hear that you suffer from winter depression. I get the same problem and often feel low during the winter months and it's pretty much as you describe it - a lack of mental energy. I just want to sleep all the time and I have no inclination to do the things I usually like doing.
I lived in Sweden for a while and it was even worse there with the northern location resulting in shorter days and less sunlight. Now I live in the south of Austria and it's better for most of the year. I highly recommend moving south if you're able, but I know it's super hard when there's money to worry about. Glad to hear that you're getting treatment nowadays.
I recently wrote a post with my top tips for beating depression. I'd love it if you'd leave a comment - if you have time and if you feel like you have something to add to the list.
https://steemit.com/depression/@victoria-kelly/my-top-5-depression-busters
Sending love and strength!
The VA hasn't helped me much in a long time. I deal with many of these same problems and the cycle is hard to break. Currently I am on an upswing and am able to interact with people, post, comment, etc. I'm taking between 5,000 and 10,000 iu of Vit D a day and it is seeming to help. The length of the down has been a bit shorter and the sunny days have made me come up farther than they were before. It's no cure but it has helped me noticeably.
It's crazy you writing this, it's literally taking the words from my mind.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am so happy to see that there are people who are comfortable talking about mental illness on this platform. I also have seasonal affective disorder as well as mixed anxiety and depression disorder (MADD and SAD, what a combination, right?) Living in the northwest I really start to long for springtime about this time of year. Soon, right? Anyway, hang in there and best wishes!
Yeah, anxiety combined with clinical depression and SAD, lots of fun, right?
At least we're half way through February now...
hey I can relate....depression is brutal!!!!! I deal with it. It is also not known about by others and tends to play right in the strike zone for making it worse as others interact 'normally'.
Ain't that the truth though!
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