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Originally Posted by SchmennaLeigh
Can you believe that Autumn starts this coming Sunday? Where did the year go?
With the days growing progressively shorter and the holidays looming right around the corner, I got to thinking about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and how it may (or may not) come into play for various birth parents.
Do you deal more with your depression in the winter months? Is it simply because of the holidays? The lack of light? Adoption issues? Or everything combined? Are you aware of the signs and symptoms of SAD so that you can watch for them during the fall and winter months?
Does anyone have a story about SAD that they'd be comfortable sharing? How have you coped?
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I've noticed that I get correspondingly gloomier as the nights set in and the light disappears. I've successfully come through it by taking 5-HTP - an amino acid that you can get from most nutritional outlets or google for it and get it on-line. I take it (100mg capsule) 20 minutes before breakfast on an empty stomach and I also take the advice that Patrick Holford gives on the subject www. patrickholford.com and I've kissed goodbye to the blues. I don't take it alone though I take a multivitamin/mineral, vitamin C (1gram /day) and others, but Patrick will guide you through what you need. The vitamins/supplements I use are excellent in their field (Biocare, Solgar, Higher Nature for example)
I know someone who had really bad depression (well mine wasn't great, I was borderline manic depressive or bipolar as its known today, but I followed P Holfords' advice - Optimum Nutrition Bible and adjusted my eating/ drinking habits which includes coffee, tea and other legal stimulants) and he was eventually put on tryptophan by his GP. The moronic thing about this in the UK is that you have to be depressed for 2 years (!) before they will use this amino acid even though GP's were using it decades ago and it outdid Valium etc. It was banned some years back as I understand it because of
one bad batch and a knee jerk reaction to ban it with also the pharmaceutical industry waiting in the wings. Anyway, time to get off soap box.
So, just a few thoughts for anyone that would like to research it.