Popularly known as the “winter blues,” Seasonal Affective Disorder is an often misdiagnosed disorder that is caused by a lack of natural light. It can become so disabling that it affects the sufferer’s quality of life. This complete sourcebook shows how to cope with and overcome the problem using a variety of strategies. Written in an easy, informal style, this book is important for anyone overly affected by a cloudy day or the long winter months.
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"Clearly written, with helpful tips, this book is a great resource for anyone who hasever had to struggle with SAD." -- Homemakers magazine
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This review is from: Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Self-Help and Treatment (Paperback)
SAD is a very important issue for many Americans. Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder by Fiona Marshall and Peter Cheevers is very educational.
SAD is depression caused by lack of natural light. In this book it described the many different cases of SAD. This is usually seasonal. Most of the depression is caused during the winter when there is a lack of sunlight and it is very cold. Many people become very tired and start to get aches and pains. In severe cases the depression starts to affect the person's social life. It interferes with their activities. Some can even lose every aspect of the person's life. This book is a very useful tool for someone who suspects themself to have SAD. It goes through many different types of the illness. It also gives a lot of things that can be done to help cure SAD. It also describes how light and climate is very important to this illness. Light is especially important to have in your house and at your work. Without enough lighting SAD could become much worse and cause extreme depression. There are many different symptoms of SAD. There is extreme fatigue and increased desire to sleep. Increased appetite and extreme mood swings. Many people have thoughts of suicide. Others might gain a drinking problem, or a drug problem. The seasonal depression starts and ends at certain times of the year. This can be caused by holiday blues also. People can feel very alone and lonely causing extreme depression. This depression usually only lasts for sixty days. More often than not this is found more in women than men. It can be linked to PMS. Most cases appear in those in their twenties to forties. SAD can become a very serious issue. The book Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder is very helpful. It gives you all the information anyone would need to know about the illness. SAD can be treated and should be taken seriously.
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I found this book to be helpful. Somebody finally put into words what I feel. It was like reading about my life. I gave it to my husband to read also, so that he would understand what I am going through.
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"Winter is a disease," wrote the nineteenth-century French poet Alfred de Musset, and many people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) would wholeheartedly agree with him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Further Reading, National Institute of Mental Health, Norman Rosenthal, United States, Help Yourself, Jacob Liberman, Royal South Hants Hospital New!
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"Winter is a disease," wrote the nineteenth-century French poet Alfred de Musset, and many people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) would wholeheartedly agree with him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Further Reading, National Institute of Mental Health, Norman Rosenthal, United States, Help Yourself, Jacob Liberman, Royal South Hants Hospital New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Health and Light: The extraordinary Study that Shows How light Affects Your Health and emotional well being. by John N. Ott on page 75, and Back Matter
- Principles of Light and Color by Edwin D. Babbitt in Back Matter
- The Healing Power of Light by Primrose Cooper in Back Matter
- ShapeWalking: Six Easy Steps to Your Best Body by Ph.D. Marilyn L. Bach in Back Matter
- Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery) by James Greer in Back Matter
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