What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Some people suffer from symptoms of depression during the winter months, with symptoms subsiding during the spring and summer months. This may be a sign of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is a mood disorder associated with depression episodes and unrealized anger episodes. The most difficult months for SAD sufferers are November though February, and younger persons and women are at higher risk.

Symptoms Include:
• Unprovoked aggressive internet posting.
• Misunderstanding of jokes.
• Having to take it off-line just to continue being aggressive.
• Road rage.
• Inability to cope with others that you would ordinarally have no issue
with.
• Having more beer in the fridge than normal.
• Empty junk food containers in the garbage that you have no recollection
of.
• Feeling unsatisfied after a gallon of Ben & Jerry’s.
• Feeling overwhelmed, when nothing really has changed.
• Generally, ____ed off at the world and leaking that anger on folks
who don’t necessarily deserve it.

Remedies/known medications:
• fluoxetine (Prozac)
• paroxetine (Paxil)
• sertraline (Zoloft)
• amitriptyline (Elavil, Endep)
• clomipramine (Anafranil)
• desipramine (Norpramin, Pertofrane)
• doxepin (Adapin, Sinequan)
• imipramine (Imavate, Janimine, Presamine, Tofranil)
• nortriptyline (Aventyl, Pamelor)
• protriptyline (Vivactil)
• trimipramine (Surmontil)
• amoxapine (Ascendin)
• bupropion (Wellbutrin)
• maprotiline (Ludiomil)
• trazodone (Desyrel)
• isocarboxazid (Marplan)
• phenelzine (Nardil)
• tranylcypromine (Parnate)


My own personal favorites 3 for Depression (anti-depressant):
Skip the beer, go right for the cabinet.
Some folks may say that alcohol is a depressant. I find that it is a mood enhancer. In other words, be in a good mood BEFORE you drink.
Have sex more often. Manually, or with a partner… Just get’er done…
My third and last favorite… you guessed it.. Alcohol and Sex…

 

I guess we did cover quite a few of those symptoms, eh?

LOL

 

heh good one. I see some of it around on these forums right now.

Up with Sex and Alcohol!

 

I have sad.

It's actually not fun. I'm pretty depressed all the time, and the only time my yaya's go up is yeah when I'm drunk, with a girl, or drunk with a girl, or working on either. Otherwise, I'm yeah sad.

 

WOW! You read me like a book, is it that obvious? Guess I better up my "meds." Thank you for pointing out the symptoms, I will tell my wife that I need to start on treatment right away!

 

On a more serious note , more sun helps if you really have SAD.

---Recommence beer and sex talk---

 

i dont have SAD... but girls and beer do make me happier!

 

The cure for the disorder is the same acronym:

Sex
Alcohol
Drugs

 

I dont have sad, however i will have less of it in dec. when i hit up Miami :D

 

Geeza got the sex and alcohol taken care of... deffinatly not sad over here...sucks for you guys take care!

 

i'll second that statement...minus the alcohol....why is eveyrone so angry....

do i need to change mine and tims sign from will mod for money to....will mod for money for angry/depressed scionlifers prostitutes?

 

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uhm NO i dont think so on that one dear! lol

 

Enya makes me sad, jumping off things cheers me up...

 

i have it as well. it used to be called light deprivation syndrome. my daughter has it as well. we have even taken her to a tanning bed (she usually goes during the winter months anyway)2 rainy days ina row and we both start feeling the effects.

 

Bright light - and lots of it - is good. First thing in the morning. Sex is better, IMHO, first thing in the morning or otherwise; but you get in less trouble buying the bright light thing than buying the sex. Cheaper, too.

 

hahahahaha you all crack me up