Seasonal Affective Disorder

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder that arrives with a particular season year after year. In most symptoms begin in fall and continue into winter. Some experience symptoms of SAD in spring or summer. Light therapy produces positive results for sufferers of SAD.

Why Tanning Won’t Cure Your Winter Blues

My friend told me he beats the winter blues by heading to a tanning bed to get his sun. My friend was not diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder, but like most people the short winter days bum him out.

Seasonal Affective Disorder is the technical term for the sadness some people experience in relationship to the changing of the seasons. One of the most effective ways to treat S.A.D. is with light therapy

Treating SAD with Light Box Therapy

by FYI Staff Writer on January 24, 2010

If you’ve ever experienced a case of the winter blues or find yourself feeling down on gloomy days, there’s a good chance that you suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD). SAD is a mood disorder in which sufferers experience depressive symptoms during the winter months of the year, and sometimes during other seasons as well. Fortunately, there are several different methods of treatment available for SAD. In the darker Arctic regions of the world (such as Finland) there is a higher diagnosis of SAD than most other places, so it …