Does anyone suffer with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?

What do you do to help your symptoms.? I find my symptoms start to improve around lunch time and I am absolutely dreadful in the mornings.

me me me...... its a nightmare, and i just been living in turkey for a year but had to come bk to england cus i had an accident and was left nearly unable to walk......anyway... going from gorgeous sunny red hot turkey to the crappy weather here in england... not a good thing. i get up feelin depressed and go to bed feelin the same, the other night i sat and cried cus of it being so different here to turkey.
i seem to feel better when its sunny and warm... i want to go out and do things but now i just stay in all the time, dont want to go anywhere or do anything. but hopefully later on i'll be going bk to turkey or somewhere else, i think its the only way to make me better.

Yes, had it for most of my life.I hate it when the clocks go back and we get up in the dark, and come home in the dark.Try and get out in the daylight as much as you can.There are mood lamps you can buy too that are supposed to help.I did have a 'daylight' light bulb at one time, that was nice.Might treat myself to another if I see one on my travels.

Oh my goodness! Every time it rains like this and every fall and winter and then there's spring. summer storms I have this terminal feeling of doom.................SAD I have clinical depression , too much chemicals and then not enough in my brain. but this seasonal stuff really gets the mood for day in a pit!
I use metations and music, but especially prayer. I use to just pray to the highest poer in the universe to take me into a different space and let me flow throught the day freely, out of the grasps of this awfulness! seriously, I pray meditate and talk to my higher power. I also talk to other people who usually get me moving inthe right direction even if I don't like it. Its putting one foot infront of the other and just do it! Just get up and go outside into the daylight. Or if the sun won't shine, I turn on the lights those daylight bulbs are great, and a sun lamp is wonderfully warm and true to the feeling
best of luck to you all
della

That sounds fairly normal for a type of SAD called sub-syndromal SAD (sometimes referred to as S-SAD), which is SAD, but a bit milder, since full-blown SAD is a form of major depression. You'll feel better since by lunch time you're pineal gland will have 'topped up' on light by that time.

There's a couple of options for improving your situation (curing it in fact), one is dawn simulation, which I don't know too much about, and might not work anyway. The other is light therapy, where you expose yourself to light for a set period per day. Half an hour while you have breakfast will sort you out, and if you do it regularly enough, you won't have the problems first thing either.

http://www.britebox-sad-lamps.com do a reasonably priced light box with a timer that will sort out SAD as well as S-SAD.