| Just like fibromylagia,and ADD (attention deficit | | | | some researches have attributed to evidenced lower |
| disorder), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a hard | | | | sustained levels of electrolytes and essential minerals |
| to diagnose and easily disregarded or overlooked | | | | and salts in the body and brain. One of these is |
| condition or form of depression. Some people get the | | | | potassium. It has been proven that low levels of |
| winter blues. Some just feel sluggish and have a hard | | | | potassium can bring on severe migrains. Another is |
| time getting out of bed in the morning. But, for some it | | | | vitamin D and sun exposure - many doctors believe |
| is a serious, almost debilitating disorder. For some it can | | | | that the seasonal limited sun exposure and lower |
| lead to an actual diagnosis for depression. | | | | levels of vitamin D produced at the cellular level in our |
| For some it is just a mild, temporary feeling of | | | | skin can bring on SAD all by itself. |
| helplessness - a very minor form of depression. For | | | | SAD can begin at any age, but is rarely evidenced in |
| others it can be very serious. As evidenced in many | | | | childhood. It occurs mostly women age 35 and above. |
| studies, 1 out of every 10 people have some | | | | If one or more symptoms of SAD can be seen it is |
| manifestation of SAD. And just like with regular | | | | strongly suggested that one seek appropriate medical |
| depression, there have been cases ending in suicide, | | | | care. It could be something as simple as a chemical |
| progression into different forms of depression and | | | | imbalance that a small change in diet could quickly fix. |
| psychosis including manic depression, multiple | | | | Sometimes a trip to a spa for a skin treatment or skin |
| personality disorder (schizophrenia), etc... | | | | peel can be enough to offset the condition. Or it could |
| Key indicators that one has SAD are sluggishness, | | | | be more severe. There is no reason to let this |
| sleeping over 10 hours per day and still feeling tired, | | | | condition go and suffer through it. With recent |
| general lethargy, migraines that can be quite severe | | | | advances in medicine SAD can be treated very |
| and usually hit their peak with drops in barmometric | | | | effectively and the sufferers quality of life greatly |
| pressure. Studies have shown that depressed people | | | | improved. |
| are more susceptible to temperature extremes which | | | | |