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Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms and Diagnosis |
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Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter. SAD is rare, if existent at all in the tropics, but is measurably present at latitudes of 30°N (or S) and higher. Cause Seasonal mood variations are believed to be related mostly to daylight, not temperature. For this reason, SAD is prevalent even in mid-la ...
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Signs and symptoms
... SAD is a cyclic, seasonal condition, which means signs and symptoms are present only during a particular season of the year and then go away. Most of the time, the signs and symptoms of SAD appear dur...
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Causes ... Doctors don''t know the causes of SAD, but heredity, age and your body''s chemical makeup all seem to play a role. So can the availability of sunlight. Researchers suspect that reduced sunlight may di...
Source: MayoClinic
When to seek medical advice ... Most people experience some days when they feel down. But if you feel down for days at a time and life seems to be losing its pleasure, see your doctor. This is particularly important if you notice th...
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Screening and diagnosis ... It''s often difficult for doctors to diagnose SAD because other types of depression may mimic SAD. Diagnosing SAD depends on whether: You''ve experienced depression and other signs and symptoms of SAD...
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Resources
- Ask NOAH About: Seasonal Affective DisorderFact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Institutes of Health)
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