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Seasonal affective disorder

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frankygouglas
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So i just learned about this shit in Psychology where people get depressed during the winter.

I feel like this wouldn't be a problem if they just skiied or had something in the winter to look forward to.

I dunno it just seems lame to me.

insight?
Mar 13 2014 8:27PM
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e~b
Posts: 861 - Karma: 2,735
i couldn't care less if people don't like winter.
Mar 13 2014 8:48PM
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HeathR
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Its mostly about the lack of sunlight. Skiing might help a bit because you are outside in the sun but you are not really getting much sun on your body. Any disorder like that is hard to understand if you don't have it.
Mar 13 2014 8:52PM
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yangumane
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I ski a lot in the winter, but it still affects me. Love it while skiing, not so much everywhere else
Mar 13 2014 8:52PM
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alex=
Posts: 1738 - Karma: 2,835
Shouldn't this be in NSG?

Pretty simple to understand. Winter is archetypally associated with death, hibernation, sleep, and stagnation. Summer is the inverse.

Some people get it so badly that they have to move to the South.
Mar 13 2014 8:54PM
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californiagrown
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Im a california boy that went to college in Washingtson. Yeah, SAD fucking crushed me.

I bought a lamp, but never really had time to actually use it properly. Supplementing Vitamin D helped a bit. But overall, it was no bueno. As much as i love the PNW, i will not be moving there. I gotta have 200 days of sun at a minimum.
Mar 13 2014 9:11PM
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slaagmaster
Posts: 129 - Karma: 63
sitting for hours in a grow room is the best cure for sad and leads to well tended plants!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 14 2014 8:12AM
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louie.mirags
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I've heard recently of studies between Vitamin D correlating with serotonin and that can explain the winter for a lot of people. Lack of sun can lead to feeling down..
Mar 15 2014 8:24AM
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bigRED.
Posts: 93 - Karma: 93
I suffer from SAD (kind of ironic) and skiing helps aloooottt. when im not i kinda just mope around like a little bitch
Mar 17 2014 6:59PM
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snakerton
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I hate people that "suffer" from this. We all go through winter, why is it so much worse for you?
Mar 17 2014 7:41PM
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californiagrown
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cause you have no iea what youre talking about? I generally dislike people who have strong opinions about subjects they have zero knowledge of. So i guess we're even?
Mar 17 2014 7:42PM
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freeballer
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SAD is a real thing for a lot of people, myself included.  Skiing helps for sure, but if you grew up in a state with a lot of sunshine and now live where you don't see the sun too much, it kind of messes you up.  For me it's just a mild depression at certain times when I'm not skiing, but not super difficult.  For others it can lead to real depression.  Vitamin D is supposed to help to make up for the lack of that vitamin through absorption in the skin from sunlight. 
Mar 18 2014 1:50PM
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Blurst
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I ski way better in the winter than in the summer so therefore im happier during the winter fact.
Mar 18 2014 1:51PM
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