Posted by MM on March 4, 2005, at 21:54:58
In reply to Re: Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder-SLS » Cecilia, posted by SLS on March 1, 2005, at 13:06:24
I think I totally have this. I have depression in the winter, but I've always hated sunshine, and have wanted to move to Seattle since I was a little girl. Love the rain...makes me calm and happy. I've heard of this before and you can either take it as a summer SAD thing or possibly a bipolar thing because the increased light would increase natural anti-depressant properties which might make someone "hypo". I think I'm somewhere between an atypical depressed person and bipolar, but I've never had a really clear hypo episode so I dunno. Seems like Bipolar is thrown around everywhere now...there's a "spectrum". That'd be fine and wonderful if that meant I would get a med that would fix me but.....I'm also a night owl, which is because I'm Bipolar right? Or is it cuz I hate sunshine? Maybe it just depends on who you talk to? Maybe we're all bipolar, some are just more so than others depending on what chemicals are being tweaked where and how?
Here's a link for what a hypomanic episode is for Run Wild: http://counsellingresource.com/distress/mood-disorders/hypomanic-symptoms.html
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