SAD - Any other Sufferers?

ziffius

Pointless I Know, but there's a SAD sufferer in the Men In Trees Tv series.

somethingaboutshopping

My symptoms are pretty mild but it just pops up out of nowhere which is what I find most difficult to deal with. I agree with you that sometimes you just feel completely beaten and I do think sometimes its best just to ride the waves, but from past experience this is what I do when I can to keep it a little under control:

Go for a walk in the morning, even if its isn't dry. I don't have a light box as my doctor told me to try a half hour walk each day in natural light first, and so far it seems to do the trick.

I ALWAYS have my MP3 player with me because some Christmas songs actually trigger me, so I just have to pop my headphones on wherever I am and listen to something else. I know this sounds very Bah Humbug but trust me no one loves Christmas more than me, its just that Fairy Tale In New York and the Band Aid song make me really really emotional, and I actually cry when I hear them.

Of course laughter is the best medicine, so please chat to someone when you are in the throes of SAD, or come on hear, or watch something you love on TV.

Take care, have a great Christmas Day and hopefully you will post soon to let us all know how you are xxx

Ted_Hutchinson

somethingaboutshopping wrote:

My symptoms are pretty mild but it just pops up out of nowhere which is what I find most difficult to deal with.

As I have pointed out in post 10 the cost of taking a few high strength vitamin d3 Cholecalciferol capsules is minimal, if you chose the highest strength then £20 will buy sufficient to last one person 10 winters, and provide a potential remedy for Avain Flu should it every materialize. It seems to me extremely good value for money to take £2's worth of cholecalciferol over the Winter and keep the same level of mood, and resistance to infection as you have during the summer.

This is without adding into the equation the 29% average reduction to your chance of getting 17 different cancers. In 2004 Those cancers killed a total of 115,964 people but 29% of those deaths most likely wouldn't have happened if people kept their vitamin d status high during the Winter so some 33,629 UK residents died for the sake of not taking £2 worth of Vitamin D3 each winter. It's ten times the number of people who died on the roads in the same period. We know the roads are dangerous places but when are we going to realise that doing without sufficient Vitamin D3 through the Winter is ten times more dangerous than driving.

Eels100

To all those SAD sufferes, I feel your pain (I'm in the North of Scotland and I'm sure it's been dark since September ... ). Spending half an hour out doors, preferably taking light exercise really helps.

But if you want to know what helped me most this year - it was Friday! Knowing we've passed the shortest day means we've broken the back of this - by the time CHristmas and New Year are done with and we're getting back to normal (admittedly that takes a bit longer in Scotland, it seems ...:p)it'll be almost noticeable. Light at the end of the tunnel!

Ted_Hutchinson

Eels100 wrote:

To all those SAD sufferes, I feel your pain (I'm in the North of Scotland and I'm sure it's been dark since September ... ). Spending half an hour out doors, preferably taking light exercise really helps.

But this won't do anything to deal with the underlying cause of the problem.
This calculator will tell you when you can start making Vitamin d from sunshine next until then your best bet is to increase your vitamin d status by taking high strength cholecalciferol. Getting your vitamin d status raised now will mean you will tan quicker when sunlight is available for vitamin d synthesis and you will also be less likely to burn or suffer skin damage.

It's worth doing not only to eliminate SAD but also for the cancer risk reduction. You'll get sufficient vit d to eliminate SAD and reduce your cancer risk by 29% for the next 10yrs for a mere £20. If this isn't Moneysaving I don't know what is.