Seasonal Affective Disorder

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I used to suffer from SAD. I was sent some research papers from a company in America that sells light boxes and came across some scientific research on SAD that you can't read anywhere else. I found my breakdowns always used to happen after September, my doctor diagnosed me with Seasonal affective disorder, I never had any symptoms of mania, my symptoms resembled ME. When I used to live back in the UK I changed my life style I used to keep my wake sleep times consistent, and keep consistent times when eating, doing physical exercise and light therapy. All this helped synchronize my internal body clock, the problem is due to an out of wack body clock which produces the wrong chemicals at the wrong time of day. I also had the added benefit of my migraines disappearing and my condition stabilized. Whatever you do you simply can not beat a warmer climate this is the main reason I moved. The sun gives me a good daily dose of vitamin D aswell.

Our natural body clocks have a bang on 24 hr cycle, like the earth day night cycle it evolved to match it. The body clock is responsible for producing the right chemicals in our brains at the right time. I.e melatonin at night to make us tired. Well what happens when it’s a dark day? Your body clock simply gets confused to produces more melatonin. Tempreture is actually the biggest factor in effecting the body clock as oppose to what you read alot that its suppose to be light.

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Because tempreture effects our inner mammal hibernation systems more then light does.