#Seasonal affective disorder

[faux-stars]

This but with vitamin D. Seriously, the difference is astonishing, and I don’t notice until it’s far too late.

It’s kind of wild watching my brain come back online the more iron I take. I can tell by my writing as I go through edits because I can see, yet again from the start of last year, when my cohesion started to fall apart and I got more and more mired in brain fog that words were getting Hard again. My descriptions were getting clumsy and excessively rambling. Like I can very clearly see I was struggling to find the right words to convey the vibe I wanted and was attempting to use all of them at once in the hopes the correct one would jump out.

And now I’m casually throwing out bangers like “turned his face upward to an apocalyptic sky.” And yes, it’s simple but you get the immediate vibe from the sentence that shit is going down.

It’s not taking me twenty billion disjointed sentences to convey the exact same thing. It gives me more room to go ham with descriptors in other places.

Anyway. Take your god damn vitamins.

[prokopetz]

The existence of the winter solstice is a great thing in principle because misery really is easier to bear when you know for a fact that it won't last forever, but the fact that it's on a precise timetable makes it weird. Knowing that it's going to keep on getting steadily worse for exactly nine days and fourteen hours and not a moment longer creates some strange behavioural incentives, is what I mean to say.

[inkskinned]

we were drunk off mezcal and my dog had his paws crossed like he was fancy and we were giggling about it and i told you that with the sun coming back i can feel my fingers again and you grabbed my wrist and jokingly shook my limp hands while saying i have you i got you and i wanted to tell you i love you in that moment but it's actually just that it's spring and love actually seems like something that i can afford once in a while so long as i'm not overwhelmed by the crushing weight of having to do my laundry

i don't get so sad on sundays anymore and part of that is you but also part of it is that i've been watching a bird melodrama in the tree outside my window - first the robins had the run of it, then the doves. most recently a family of sparrows came through. the sky was pink today like a kiss, and i felt the pastel wrap in a warm piebald snake around my chest and hum herself into my bones

thank god for every person that forgives me for the depressive spirals i go on every winter without-fail like i swear there are absolutes in this world and it's stuff like. stoats go white in winter. the sun comes over the east. when it gets cold all parts of my soul go numb and the light can't pass through my iris without a tattoo gun. how many times can i tell a friend i'm sorry i wasn't talking to you, i truly wasn't talking to anyone

thank god i can feel my skin right now and you hold my weak little hand in your hand and then you flip it over so you can read my palm and you're smiling while you run fingertips over lines and read out my fate like it says here you like a good grillcheese sandwich and admit it you make salads by buying the pre-made spring mix and i have all your astrology shit memorized and i read your horoscope first when i'm checking my own even-though-i-don't-believe-in-it (but just in case) and i want to kiss you just to watch the blush spread in a tulip from under your freckles in that way it does, how you pull back and wrinkle your nose in laughter

thank god but today for the first time in a month i finally texted my friends back and actually made plans to hang out (how's that! barring disaster!) and i let my dog put his big muddy paws on my nice sweater and yeah actually when it's bad i always think i can't do that again. i can't crawl back up that mountain

but the sun touched me on the face this morning and we had a nice long talk about it and i said i gotta go the long way again huh and she nodded and shook back her solarflare hair and looked over to her moon girlfriend and she said you can do it. better things on the horizon.

[autiebiographical]

Autumn is my favourite season so I'm always blindsided by the inevitable smackdown of depression from my seasonal affective disorder.

[doctorslippery]

I see this as an evolution. We are air in our youth, fire in our adolescence and early adulthood, water in our adulthood, and then, become earth as we age.

[may-be-a-plant]

Hey friends, just a reminder as we head into October and sunlight lessens that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a very real thing!

If you feel like you're miserable or moody for no particular reason, you may not be getting enough sunlight/vitamin D!

I love y'all, be kind to yourselves and listen to your bodies!

[turtlesandfrogs]

If you know you're one of us who gets depressed (or just feel more tired/fatigued/like everything is harder) as we head into winter please consider:

- light therapy, aka getting a really bright lamp, made for people with S.A.D. and using it for 30 to 45 minutes every day in the morning. (In studies this has been shown to be as effective as therapy or medication for treating S.A.D. AND it works for normal straight up depression too!)

- CBT specifically for S.A.D.

- Getting on a antidepressant seasonally

Additionally, you may find these suggestions helpful for general quality of life:

- get a sunrise simulator alarm clock if you have to wake up before dawn

- getting movement outside in bright, early morning light if possible

- increase exercise & make sure you're getting enough sleep

- taking a vitamin D supplement, because a lot of folks in the US are moderately deficient . If you don't have enough vitamin D, it can make you depressed (and make you fatigued, and make your bones and muscles ache), and vitamin D deficiency rates go up in the winter.

Good luck. It's a real thing and it sucks, but there are things we can do to reduce its effects.

[nudityandnerdery]

I will not be taking questions on this meme, thank you.

[incendavery]

splish splash

[positivelypresent]

A few ideas if you’re not a fan of winter! ❄️

[schuylerpeck]

always emotional about the line can I handle the seasons of my life? but in a heavier way right now, feeling winter’s imminence and knowing the worst version of myself will follow.

[todayontumblr]

Monday, November 27.

Holiday Blues 2023.

It's not just November, nay, it's nearly December. The mornings are getting darker. The evenings are, too, and it's only getting chillier. The holidays approach, as the holidays are wont to do. And we know that this is not good news for everybody. In fact, the seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) struggle is real, and if you're finding these first days of winter difficult, you're not alone. Far from it, in fact.

Well, fancy that. If you suffer from holiday blues, we've got one or two things that might be of help to you. It's Holiday Blues, from @postitforward, and it's back for 2023.

[pratchettquotes]

The Luggage might be magical. It might be terrible. But in its enigmatic soul it was kin to every other piece of luggage throughout the multiverse, and preferred to spend its winters hibernating on top of a wardrobe.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

[idiopathicsmile]

Autumn with Seasonal Affective Disorder

Festive Halloween decor Lattes flavored like a gourd Cozy sweaters, crunchy leaves The hanging sword of Damocles

Warming spices in our mugs Pile that duvet nice and snug Giant bright orange pumpkin moon The yawning void, it looms and looms

Charlie Brown and mellow tunes A day of thanks is coming soon Feel that nip that crisps the air Before you’re swallowed by despair

[jasperscringepit]

Daylight Savings amirite.

I love autumn so much but god, it leads straight into SAD season for me and it is kicking my ass rn.

[jeepers-sheepers]

The cold isnt forever. My people wont abandon me. The sun will come back, and everything will be good again.