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SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Unknown userMember22 May 2017, 12:11 am AEST

SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

WINTER BLUES 😞

Does anyone else start getting really down in May? As long as I can remember - may is a difficult month for me, long before the Major Depression label. It spirals into slothful living and sleeping the winter away. Even though I love autumn weather, on the inside I just want to go to sleep and bide my time 'till spring comes - when I know i get a burst of energy back. Lots of people suffer SAD, and for some its serious. Its a well documented condition, and in my case compounds existing depression & anxiety, the tipping point. I noticed here on the forums last year that a lot of us struggled to get through winter, even here in mild Australian weather. What, if any are your winter blues symptoms in the winter?

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Unknown userMember21 July 2017, 12:10 am AEST

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Unknown userMember22 July 2017, 6:29 am AEST

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MY MORNING CUPPA ♨ A really big one because its soooo blooming cold brrr! - 07° here at sunup today.⛄ Didn't sleep much - dog woke me twice and my mind is racing from a great night out (ladies ♨night fund raiser for school chaplains). The music was amazing and the speakers were supper good too. No social anxiety at all (which is amazing for me - hope that lasts, just reeeeeal calm lately, maybe preparing me for something, wonder if its that vision I had in march - that I would attend a funeral late July, ha mha maybe mine cause my butts freezingboff atm just going to the toot lol). Sorry, got off track, no, just really tired lately, have to work 8:30am, so must try sleep again, hope I can last the distance 🙂 🌷🌿

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Unknown userMember23 July 2017, 12:05 pm AEST

MOURNFUL (adjective): feelings expressed, sadness, regret...

MOURNFUL (adjective): feelings expressed, sadness, regret, or grief.
Synonyms: sad, sorrowful, doleful, melancholy, woeful, miserable, unhappy, heartbroken, heavy-hearted, gloomy, dismal, tragic, desolate, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, disconsolate, woebegone, forlorn, rueful, lugubrious, sombre, joyless, cheerless, mirthless; funereal, elegiac, plaintive, plangent, dirge-like; rarethrenodic; literary, heartsick, dolorous.
antonyms: happy, joyful, cheerful

Well, maybevnot that bad, just washed out and in pain, like trouble walking pain (from overdoing it yesterday I guess). And a bit teary. Trying not to feel too sorry for myself, but 😿

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AdgeSenior Contributor23 July 2017, 12:41 pm AEST

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Me too @Former-Member

I can relate. Despair flashbacks etc today - I can barely get the words out to express myself.

I need find something to enjoy in what's left of the day.

I just can't think of or focus on anything.

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AdgeSenior Contributor23 July 2017, 9:17 pm AEST

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I've been waiting for the locum doctor to come for several hours (since 5.30pm this afternoon).

I'vebeen feeling worse the past few days, especially today.

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soulSenior Contributor23 July 2017, 10:11 pm AEST

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That's no good @Adge. Hope the doctor has been by now. Take care.

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AdgeSenior Contributor23 July 2017, 10:29 pm AEST

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Thanks @soul

No hasn't come. I'm still waiting after more than 3 hours.

He's supposed to arrive within 20 minutes of saying that he's on the way.

They diverted him to other people first they finally admitted - but won't tell me when now.

I'm normally in bed by 8pm even when I'm not I'll. Because I have to get up very early to go to work.

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Unknown userMember24 July 2017, 8:33 am AEST

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Hi @soul ❤
@Adge, sorry you're still so unwell. As if we haven't got enough to deal with. Did the Dr come eventually? Are you well enough to work?

I'm feeling a bit better this morning, in t no bombardment of Blackdog thinking (like I woke up to yesterday, teary all morning), so hopeful to have a good day. Do have that giant pile of tree cuttings to take to the tip, and A/T Lady's Study GP today (study to catch up with).

Oh no, there it is, another visual flash from the past. My girl getting an award from school. Should be a good memory but its bitter sweet (tears) because she's no longer with us.. Have a photo I want to share with her. Memories can be painful, I long for the day I can rejoycevover her memories without crying.

Oh well, nothing a good cu of tea can't fix / or get me through, have a good day 🌷🌿

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soulSenior Contributor24 July 2017, 8:52 am AEST

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Brrrr - my fingers are frozen from hanging out the washing. Blowing into my hands and wrapping them around a hot cup of tea. Wasn't so bad as when I was out walking earlier.

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AdgeSenior Contributor24 July 2017, 1:24 pm AEST

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The Dr came at 10pm, after a 4 & 1/2 hour wait.

I needed to sleep before 8pm so tired, strained to stay awake waitng. Left me in a mess for today.

Seems to be a chest infection, with the virus still not gone yet.

I'm on another course of antibiotics (finished the last one about 9 days ago).

Maybe I should have waited to see my normal GP, I don't know about these antibiotics.

I forgot to mention my sudden aches & pains shooting through my sides (to Dr). Don't know if it's due to the virus, or something else.

I'm sorry to hear about you flashbacks (happy memories) which are so sad & sudden, @Former-Member. That's hard. I'm thinking of you.

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