seasonal affective disorder

     

Seasonal affective isorder (SAD), also known as winter depression, is a mood disorder whose sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter. As stated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine:

Trivia about seasonal affective disorder

  • Winter depression is the best-known form of SAD, short for this condition; symptoms include fatigue, anxiety & irritability
  • (Dr. Drew Pinsky reports.) If short winter days make your roommate sleep longer & eat all your potato chips, he may have SAD, short for this, and need light therapy

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