How To Overcome Winter Depression
All of us won’t feel the same every day. There are days where we feel
more down than yesterday . There are times where we do not realize that we are down due to bad days such as winter depression.
When winter season come, more people
start to get depress than you may
realize and the symptoms will differ from person to person but there are few similar signs that you need to look out
for.
Winter Depression Do Exist
Winter
blues , that we all talk about when come
to winter , but yet many of us brush it
aside as something that is not real. Getting depressed during winter is a real
situation and is a no joke about it.
This kind of depressed during winter is
known as seasonal affective disorder ( SAD) . The amount of daylight that we get during winter
does affect our natural rhythms.
More so during winter , it can go out of synch which will cause several symptoms.
So What
Are The Symptoms?
Everyone will experience the
symptoms of winter depression
differently which are extremely varied .
Some of the symptoms which are generally occurred are :-
* Feeling irritable,
* Feeling guilty, worthless or having low self esteem,
* Crying a lot,
* Feeling anxious and stressed,
* Reduced sex drive,
* Feeling more tired than usual and sleeping
more,
* Weight gain,
* Lack of energy,
* Increase in appetite,
* Craving unhealthy food.
You may
realized that all these symptoms which are general symptoms of depression occurred at the same
time every year . If this happen then this are strong symptom that the
depression you experience is related to the winter season. This symptom will slowly reduce starting from
autumn but will worsen during winter
where the daylight hours decreasing.
Why Winter Depression occur ?
This winter depression is also known as seasonal depression. It is possible for you to know what are the
various causes to this kind of depression. This
will determine whether you are
expose to risk when the depression attack
you. There are no specific cause
but there are identified fact.ors
that have the likelihood in
developing it
Some
theories state that sunlight affects the hormones which are responsible
for your mood , sleep and appetite. Thus the level of sunlight that you get
everyday does affect certain hormones in your
brain.
When the
sunlight levels decrease , the hormones
change and thus you may get some of the symptom of depression which is
known as seasonal affective disorder.
There is
another hormone known as melatonin that
has an influence in the light levels. This hormone is responsible
for your sleep, the darker
the area surrounding you, the
more it is produced which will make you more sleepy.
Another
hormone is the serotonin which affect
your mood , sleep and appetite.
The less sunlight you receive , the less it produce which can cause you
to fall into depression.
Circadian Rhythm works like our internal clock where it tell
us when we need to sleep and wake-up every day.
When the level of sunlight changes , it can get disrupted.
Having reading all the above, you can realize that winter depression is not
a mitos but really happen and this can affect many areas of your daily life.
If
you suffered from this kind of depression, you can approach your doctor
as they should be able to advise you
several option of treatments.
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