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Fall…Are You Down?
By admin | November 23, 2007
Do you think you’re starting suffer from depression? Occasional sad feeling, especially in fall and winter time, is perfectly normal. Feeling blue is our body’s reaction to deficiency of light.
In fall, days become shorter and shorter, rainy days push out sunny ones, and our mood becomes sad, we feel down and melancholic. Scientists say, that’s not a reason to worry.
Many people suffer from “weather depression” and their mood depends greatly on weather circumstances. This is normal and logical – when it’s sunny and warm outside, we react by smiling more, getting out of the house and catching those Sun rays. Likewise, when we have to stay indoors because of rainy and stormy day, we might feel sad, think about bad situations and even feel depressed.
FOUR REASONS FOR FALL SADNESS
1. Psychological – many people have bad image when they think of darkness. Images of loneliness are often present, too.
2. Physical – our body reacts to biological impulses that rain, storms and dark create. They are very complicated and can’t be explained, although scientists are still trying to connect these links together.
3. Chronological sleepiness – less light creates more dark and instinct to sleep more.
4. Defficiency of vitamin D – vitamin D is activated by light. Since there’s less light, vitamin D isn’t activated and that makes people feel sad and/or depressed.
GET UT OF THAT SLEEPY TRAP!
There are ways you can avoid this boring and depressed feeling every year. Doctors recommend eating more vitamin D. You can find it in fish, and other vitamin supplements. Also, going early to bed and waking up earlier in the morning, when there’s more light is very helpful, too.
Although fall is considered to be rainy and boring, there will be lot of sunny and warm days. Use that weather to go outside, enjoy taking a long walk and breathing some fresh air. You will feel better instantly and forget about sad feeling!
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