Seasonal affective disorder, often referred to using the painfully apt acronym SAD, affects one in three people in the UK.
Every autumn it’s the same. My post-summer mood evaporates, and a rather stubborn cloud of despair appears in its place. Ah, hello again,Seasonal affective disorder, often referred to using the painfully apt acronym SAD, affects one in three people in the UK, and statistics indicate that women are 40 per cent more likely to suffer with it.
I am lucky that it isn’t worse, but especially last year, it started to impact my daily life. Luckily, my job atinvolves researching all manner of maladies and wellness trends, which led to me coming across light therapy, and subsequently theSince SAD is linked to the fact we are less exposed to sunlight in the winter months – cue a disruption to our circadian rhythms and a lack of happy-making serotonin – one way of treating it is with artificial light .
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