Morganton.com of North Carolina had an article about 6 ways to boost mind and mood.
“The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that as many as half a million people in the United States suffer from winter-onset depression and that another 10-20 percent may experience mild SAD. According to Mental Health America, women suffer from SAD [...]
The Wall Street Journal had a recent article on Winter Depression.
Here are some paragraphs from that article, for the full lenght article visit the WSJ directly to read the article titled “Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues”
“Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, affects an estimated 6% of Americans, causing depression, lethargy, irritability and a desire [...]
Care2.com had an article titled “A better way to Improve Mood“. Here are a couple of interesting article highlights:
““We’re facing a bad-mood epidemic”
“Of course, neither amino acids nor antidepressants work for everyone, but a 1991 head-to-head comparison published in the medical journalPsychopathology found that the amino acid 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) actually outperformed the antidepressant Luvox in [...]
“Between 4 and 6 percent of the U.S. population suffers from Seasonal Depression, while 10 to 20 percent may suffer from a more mild form of winter blues.
SAD is a depression that occurs each year at the same time,starting in fall or winter and ending in spring or early summer.”
For full article, click here.
A recent article by UPI talks about how a large percentage of the US population has insufficient Vitamin D levels. While the article doesn’t make a connection to depression we thought it was nevertheless worth sharing as research already made the connection between Vitamin D and depression. So if you are suffering from seasonal affective disorder [...]
HealthNews.com recently wrote an article with 12 Signs of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
“The primary symptom of SAD is recurring feelings from year to year. If a number of the symptoms on the list are familiar and ones that seem to become prominent at the same time each year, it becomes all the more important to discuss [...]