Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder Or The Winter Blues
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It&#39;s a depression that occurs in winter known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, due to inadequate light exposure and women are four times more likely to suffer from SAD than men.
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More than winter blahs, seasonal depression is recognized and treatable.
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By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 7--It's February, the weather stinks, and your moods -- and those of  your spouse or co-workers -- are swinging more than the Golden Gate Bridge  during a windstorm.   Before the Internet, you needed a ring to broadcast your mood.
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SATURDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Older relatives who are frail or ill have special emotional, mental and physical health needs that require extra attention to help them enjoy the holiday season, geriatric specialists say.
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The darkest day is the birthday of hope: For many thousands of years, that is what the winter solstice has meant to people all over the world.  It is the shortest day of the year, when night has its greatest dominion. But it also is the day that light begins to grow.
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NEW YORK  - Persistent depression is associated with worse physical health a year after heart attack or severe chest pain -- known by the umbrella term "acute coronary syndrome" (ACS), researchers from Canada report.
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.
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For most people, figuring out the line between &quot;I&#39;ve been moody lately&quot; or &quot;I get tired easily,&quot; &quot;I can&#39;t sleep&quot; and &quot;I have depression&quot; is difficult.
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For many of us, the way our skin looks in the morning dictates, like the weather, what kind of day we might have. We get out of bed, skip (or stagger) over to the mirror, and peer at our reflection as if we were peering out the window. What did the day blow in? A clear, calm complexion? A shower of breakouts? A mist of fine lines? A gloomy new cumulus of dark spots?
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NEW YORK  - Appearance and physical disability are risk factors for depression in people afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis, researchers report. With systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly known as just lupus, only appearance seems to predict depression.
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Studies conducted over the last several years have found that Icelanders suffer less from winter-related depression than people in many southern climates.
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COLD snaps can trigger heart attacks, particularly in people suffering from high blood pressure, researchers said yesterday. The increased rate of attacks during winter lows is probably due to the fact that
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If you catch a cold or get the flu this winter, be very careful if you take more than one medication to ease your symptoms. The two drugs could share ingredients that could pose a danger
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AN Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have revealed that physical symptoms are nearly as common as emotional ones in patients suffering from depression.
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Over the past several decades, a steady stream of studies has documented that people born in winter and spring have an increased risk for schizophrenia, a serious mental illness characterized by disordered thinking, hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms.
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Adults with mental disorders are at higher risk of brain tumors and lung cancer and developing these cancers at younger ages than individuals without mental illness, according to a study in the new issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
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Depression and manic depression are associated with dementia, and the more often a patient is hospitalized for these mental illnesses the greater their risk, Danish researchers report.