Monday, 27 February 2012

Seasonal affective disorder

Quite often, our experience of stress comes from our perception of the situation.
Often that perception is right, but sometimes it's not.

For instance, sometimes we're unreasonably harsh with ourselves or instinctively jump to wrong conclusions about people's motives. This can send us into a downward spiral of unhappiness and negative thinking, and can cause us to be unfair or aggressive with others.

Thought Awareness, Rational Thinking, and Positive Thinking are simple tools that help you to change this negative thinking.

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
It is also known as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, summer blues, or seasonal depression, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer, spring or autumn year after year. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), SAD is not a unique mood disorder, but is "a specifier of major depression".


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