Being SAD

"Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression, is an affective, or mood, disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer. The condition in the summer is often referred to as Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder." (Wikipedia)

Now, I can't imagine feeling depressed because of the summer weather, but I've definitely noticed that as the days start shorter and the night stretch longer, people's moods generally tend to get worse. Also, quite a witty acronym, no?

I think most people have SAD to a certain degree, though not enough to drive them to medication and suicide - just a general feeling of gloominess. Take me for instance - generally happy, but January sucked. Nothing particularly bad happened, but if you were to ask me "how's life?" I'd say "life sucks". Quite annoying.

Of course, there is a cure.

In these lamps.

Though if I had to sit for an hour in front of these lamps each day...well, it's not exactly a mood-enhancer, and using the hour to think about my situation may even make me more depressed.

How about we collide a large asteroid with Earth, and change its tilt to zero so that we can enjoy the same amount of sunlight all year? What an idea!

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One day, back in 2003 when I was using Yahoo! mail, I got invited randomly to this website's mailing list: World Science.

It has tons of interesting scientific news, finds, and breakthroughs. Like this story about how Christopher Columbus may have brought syphilis to the New World...hmmmm....

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Reading Ctrl+Alt+Del lately, starting with the first one. Working slowly, now I'm up to summer 2006. Yes, it's good :)



That's all for now.

Cindy