Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Do you need to seek medical help? Educate yourself about the symptoms of SAD, how this disorder affects sufferers, and those treatments that are most helpful.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
SAD is not just experiencing sadness after summer has gone. Symptoms of SAD start to develop in autumn, when the season moves toward winter and daylight hours are shortened. For most people, symptoms of SAD typically appear sometime between September and November.
Moreover, because of the severity and consequences of Seasonal Affective Disorder and other types of depression, doctors need extensive evidence of the condition before they are willing to make a definite diagnosis.
Although symptoms may be very severe, doctors do not usually diagnose a person with SAD until after he or she demonstrates strong evidence of the disorder for at least three winters in a row!
What are the Symptoms of SAD?
Individuals who are affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder begin to have emotions of depression, reduced motivation, and tend to sleep for excessive periods.
Furthermore, they develop a craving for sugar or sweets. In addition, most people diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder also have poor
Immune System Functioning.
Often, they become ill much more easily than people who
do not have SAD.
Symptoms of SAD can seriously decrease a person's ability to function at work or educationally. This decreased motivation often makes getting out of bed or engaging in one’s usual daily activities difficult.
Sufferers have trouble participating in social situations, or even at home. These persons often have episodes of extreme panic and irritability. Occasionally, the problem becomes severe and disabling enough that people even consider suicide and have to be hospitalized for treatment!
Additionally, this condition seems to get better yearly at springtime. In fact, by March or April, symptoms of SAD typically subside or resolve altogether - until the following autumn.
This is true even in regions that tend to be dismal all year long. In fact, as many as twenty percent of the people treated for seasonal affective disorder will at some point develop symptoms of bipolar disorder!
These sufferers primarily tend to be depressed in the winter months, but have normal moods during the remainder of the year. In some cases, however, they describe instances of uncontrollable mood elevation, which is also called mania.
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As with other types of depression, symptoms of SAD may become very serious and even disabling if left untreated. Additionally, some people experience very mild forms of depression; they may experience sleepiness, lack of motivation, and eating difficulties. Such people, however, do not usually endure instances of depressive moods or anxiety.
Who Gets Symptoms of SAD
This type of depression is relatively uncommon in sunny regions such as Tennessee, southern California, and Texas. In contrast, people who reside in states with a large number of cloudy days, such as Ohio, Michigan, or Oregon are at higher risk for developing SAD. Residents of countries such as Denmark, Sweden, and Ireland also struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder.Interestingly, females appear to experience symptoms of SAD more frequently than men do.
Treatment options for Symptoms of SAD
Scientists have tried a number of different strategies to help affected individuals overcome this debilitating problem. They have tried exposing people to artificial light in an attempt to help them manufacture more serotonin and reduce depression symptoms.
Scientists have also tried medicines such as anti-anxiety drugs, as well as supplements such as melatonin, in an attempt to treat these signs of depression. Often, those who have this condition also seek out psychiatrists when their symptoms of SAD are at their peak.
All of these approaches have been used with different degrees of effectiveness. All, however, are definitely more expensive and time-consuming than two recently introduced, innovative techniques.
Hypnotherapy and NLP for Symptoms of SAD?
Hypnotherapy practitioners have perfected the art of providing assistance with learning both NLP and self-hypnosis strategies for depression.Through self-hypnosis, people learn to talk themselves out of a depressive period and resolve their symptoms of SAD. These useful therapies, hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, have proven to have an astonishing amount of benefit in helping people to recover from, and avoid future episodes of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Summary: SAD is a form of sadness that reappears each year at the same season. Only persons who struggle with this problem are able to determine whether they will continue fighting these symptoms on their own, over and over, or to try to get help in resolving this condition once and for all. Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Seasonal Affective Disorder are two helpful, innovative approaches that provide a quick escape from these feelings without consuming excessive resources in terms of money or energy.
Alan B. Densky, CH specializes in depression and stress related symptoms as a certified hypnotist and NLP Practitioner. He has helped thousands of clients since 1978. He offers CDs for hypnosis depression therapy. Visit his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website for the hypnosis article repository, or watch his free videos on hypnosis.
My Comments: While the use of Hypnotherapy can be a great addition to treatment of depressive disorders, primary prevention strategies should include:
• Getting plenty of exercise (outdoors if possible)
• Making sure that your Vitamin D levels are not just normal, but optimal!
• Eating right and avoiding sugar, caffeine and alcohol
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In Good Health,
Kerri Knox, RN
Webmaster/owner
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