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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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soulSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:14 am AEST

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Painters are swearing and arguing again 😞

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:20 am AEST

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Hmmmm ...... no peace for you it sounds ..... got earphones and a good beat ??

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:38 am AEST

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Had porridge with my coffee this morning @soul .... mixed berries, butter, cinnamon, honey, walnuts ..... my toned-down version of
WH's super-porridge .... lol .... I left out the kitchen sink .....

😂

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:39 am AEST

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And away for a week .....

@soul

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soulSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:41 am AEST

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Sounds really yummy @Faith-and-Hope. The rain is getting a little heavier. Good porridge weather.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:43 am AEST

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Yeah .... 9deg here now.

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soulSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:49 am AEST

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Do you do the cryptic crosswords @Faith-and-Hope? My mother was a big crossword fan. I used to buy her subscriptions to crossword magazines.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:56 am AEST

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No @soul .... haven't really got the jhang of the cryptic ones ... although U can sometimes jag a clue or two. My mum was a wiz at them though. Wish she was here to ask how to do them and demonstrate for me ..... 😔

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Unknown userMember24 Aug 2017, 9:57 am AEST

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Oh no @soul. probably just the way they communicate, grr! Your own noise to focus on can help, but might have to go out again, what a pain.

I just rang mum who revealed dad (diabetic) hasnt checked his blood sugar for weeks - he's forgotten how to, and mum can't work the glucometer. Fortunately the shower nurse was finishing, and I was on speaker, so I asked her to have it added to dads care plan during shower time 😕

So much for speaking to the RN Case manager that reviews him every month. Not impressed. And mums cranky with me because dads having daily showers now "because I talked with them" - called me "a shit" as she hates them coming into the house and dads "loves the attention" she declares with sarcadm. What a joke! Same old same old with her - can't win either way. She says she's not coping, I see dads neglect (dementia) and when i help - smash!

She also tells me dads having trouble passing urine on & off for weeks (with all the personal detail grr), honestly, think she knows how I'm gonna respond to these things and gets off on it, appealing to the nurse in me, stressing me out, pulling me in... (she was a nurse herself back in the 50s), I just feel emotionally manipulated, again. Outsiders can't see this, yet. Training myself to 'shake it off' - not easy when ya care

Well, keep ending up on this couch, gotta wash my hair and sort something to wear for shop work. So lucky they always put me on the counter and not out the back. I do like customer service.

What you guys doing today? Gosh, forgotten what threads to go to to find your news 😕

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soulSenior Contributor24 Aug 2017, 9:59 am AEST

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Yikes - thunder storm here now.

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