February is just about upon us and this is frequently a time when Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD is most prevalent. There have been a lot of questions about the affectiveness and logisitcs surrounding light therapy to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder. In this sharepost Id like to address some of the Frequently Asked Questions regarding [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Most people with winter-onset SAD can benefit from light therapy, but in light therapy, the devil is in the details. A very basic, bottom line description of light therapy is that it consists of light entering the patients retina from a prescribed distance for a prescribed amount of time. But distance and angle of the [...]
Friday, December 16, 2011
If you have episodes of depression that occur only in the fall, winter and early spring, you may have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The hallmarks of SAD are excessive sleeping, carbohydrate and sugar cravings, lethargy, difficulty concentrating and depression. Although many of the symptoms are similar to non-seasonal depression, if your symptoms go away with [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
I’m sure that over the past few years you’ve seen articles about the holiday blues, maybe even the one I wrote. To briefly recap, having the holidays blues isn’t the same thing as being depressed during the holidays. No, the holiday blues can strike any of us, whether we have depression or not. Some of [...]
So, I was finally fed up with not being able to find anything on my desk. I keep throwing things on it that never leave, and since I have a very small desk area, it doesn’t take much in the way of neglect to make it a complete mess. via Decluttering My Desk: How Did [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
When we’re trying to diagnose depression in ourselves or someone else, we often look at how we person feel. We feel sad, hopeless, exhausted, empty and so on. But sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint how we feel, and we’ll get more insight into our condition by looking at our actions. Socializing and Pastimes (or lack [...]
Two years ago, I spent nine months with sinus infections. I had one after another, and if I didn’t go to the doctor and get antibiotics, I got so sick that I would throw up. None of the doctors I saw could figure out why all of a sudden I was so prone to sinus [...]
Recently I was looking online for some information that family member needed about whether it was safe to take melatonin when you were on an antidepressant. I was pretty sure that they should not be taken at the same time. I groaned when I saw the answer that someone had posted to this particular question [...]
When I found out that I was pregnant, I made three phone calls. The first was to my husband at work, the second was to my parents and the third was to my psychopharmacologist (a doctor who specializes in psychiatric medication). My pregnancy was planned, so my doctor and I had already talked about what [...]
Very few children are naturals at social interaction and sail through childhood making friends effortlessly, but children with ADHD/ADD have a harder time socializing than most. I remember being laughed at when I marched up to my 4th grade crush and told him I liked him and wanted him to come over to my house [...]
