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How do you avoid S.A.D.?

^ None of that can be in my house anymore, hahaha. But yeah, poutine may be a good comfort food--Never had it, but it sounds really good (minus the cheese).
 
^ Very true. I think the fries with gravy from my kitchen would taste pretty darn good. It'll be imitation poutine once I find a "cheese" that doesn't taste my cardboard or have ingredients that look like they belong on the periodic table.
 
using a sun lamp regularly can help even if it is only 10 minutes per day.
Another thing I use is orange, lemon, lime, bergamont etc when cleaning and putting a few drops in radiators so it is a summery smell helps keep me a bit happier. I try and get outside when possible and talk to people as often as I can.
Each winter I try a new hobby or join a class, this year it is salsa classes, ok I suck big time at dancing but it gets me out and chatting to folk and getting some exercise.
 
59 seconds has some pretty great and simple advice. Can pick it up cheap on amazon
 
Swim indoors - tricks one into thinking it's not winter
Get outside - snow shoveling is a good excuse. endorphins from exertion included for free as a bonus
Vitamin D supplementation - do this year-round, just take more

and gin and poutine ;) no seriously though that sounds fucking delicious. I can't believe I haven't taken an opportunity to eat poutine yet in my lifetime.
 
SAD is the Standard American Diet. It's also Seasonal Affective Disorder. The latter of the two are the topic we're discussing. :P And you're not being a desensitive ass--After I had made this topic, I thought about clarifying, but never bothered.

BTW: Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I'm definitely going to start Vitamin D supplementation again, among other things. I think swimming in the winter will do wonders for me, esp. if it's a heated pool. Lawl, too bad public pools are so skuzzy.
 
Seasonal Depression?

Anyone else ever get this? I live in New Jersey and it seems ever since i got arrested 2 years ago, in the winter time, when it gets darker early. I get seasonally depressed. I have depersonalization, that could count towards some things, but shouldnt make me depressed. I dont know why I get like this around this time, but I do and it sucks. I never feel like going out, and when I do I just want to go home. Its like this weird feeling in my head that just doesnt want to do anything.

Anyone have this? I was put on Lexapro last year around this time and it made me so much worse, it made me suicidal and I dont think im depressed in a way I ihave a serotonin problem, but I dont know what the problem is.


Currently, im withdrawaling from opiates, not so bad the peak is over, but it sucks. It has mad be very depressed and not want to do anything or talk to people or anything. I dont know what really to do. I take vitaminds and natural medications, but it just sucks :( especially not being able to smoke either
 
lol buddy you picked the wrong time to withdraw from opiates. winter season with its short daylight and cold annoying days makes anyone feel like shit trust me.
i personaly feel really depressed right now at this time and im not fucking sure what to fucking take for it !!!!!!!!!!!
 
Do you know about SAD (seasonal affective disorder)? It is a real condition and can be treated pretty well by using light boxes. Speak to your GP...
 
asecin said:
lol buddy you picked the wrong time to withdraw from opiates. winter season with its short daylight and cold annoying days makes anyone feel like shit trust me.
i personaly feel really depressed right now at this time and im not fucking sure what to fucking take for it !!!!!!!!!!!
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well no i picked the worst time to go on an opiate binge hah.
im not an addict thats been using every day for months or anything, i just used too much within a 2 week period of time and now im paying for it. The withdrawls should be gone tommorow or sunday, but yes it sucks.
 
p-mo said:
Do you know about SAD (seasonal affective disorder)? It is a real condition and can be treated pretty well by using light boxes. Speak to your GP...
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Um i havent really looked into it, but GP is what now?
 
To anyone with the LUX or whatever lights they are called for light therapy, is it really worth it to spend 200 or more on one of these lights? I dont wanna blow that much money on a light really, but if it works then id very much be glad to have it. Is there any place you can liek test them out to see if it works for you?

I'm pretty positive i have SAD as well, and currently i take Istonix multi-vitamin, and advanced b vitamin, with irwin naturals Ginkgo Smart and Stress Defy, and I have Vitamin D3 (and i enver really too kit before, but now that people say it helps, i think ill make sure to take it more often). I also take omega 3-6-9. But even all that still feel down, and Lexapro ssri i think, didnt help AT ALL last year, made me suicidal and shit so i dont even wanna go down the path of pharma-anti-depressants.
 
The light therapy seems interesting, but expensive. I dont wanna spend 200+ on one of them if it doesnt work for me though.
 
I don't ever seem to be able to completely avoid S.A.D., but vitamin d, a good multivitamin, being outside, and smoking weed all seem to help. I kind of want to try some of those light therapy lights too, but don't want to spend a bunch of money on something that doesn't work.
 
I wanna know if my condition really is SAD or maybe depression in general, or from drug use for the past couple years.

Does anyone else have a strange feeling in there head, almost constantly. Sort've like a lightheaded feeling but not really, as if something is making my brain tense or something, and that feeling is accompanied with a feeling of just sorta depression and dont want to do much.

I mean I took Lexapro last year and the doctor went from 10mg to 40mg in like a 2 month period of time and that shit made me think suicidaly, and made me extremely depressed, but that same feeling seems like its occuring now, just not as bad. Its weird, I'm not sure exactly what to do. I just recently quit doing drugs, and i could see how that would make someone depressed, but i dont see how that would give me this strange feeling in my head. I have no reason to be depressed I have enjoy what I have and have been given. This just seems uncontrolable.

Anyone have something similar to this, or did have something similar to this? How did you fix the problem. Also, this feeling either was non existant or very mild during any other time of the year.
 
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