A Family Therapists Point of View

Are you someone who loves the changing leaves but hates the darker evenings and shorter days? The shorter days can bring on sadness for some and depression for others. Seasonal affective disorder can be brought on by shorter days, cloudy days and coldness. This sadness or depression  comes on every year at the same time and can go away same time each year. People can really struggle getting out of bed and being motivated and they may think but that is normal because "everybody is like that in fall or winter". According to the Mayo Clinic's website there are several types of seasonal affective disorder. Here is what I found. "In most cases, seasonal affective disorder symptoms appear during late fall or early winter and go away during the sunnier days of spring and summer. Less commonly, people with the opposite pattern have symptoms that begin in spring or summer. In either case, symptoms may start out mild and become more severe as the season progresses. Sign