| Seasonal Affective Disorder is not an easy disorder to | | | | life. |
| diagnose because most of the time it passes as light | | | | The disorder is indicated by extreme sluggishness. So |
| depression. However, if it is left untreated for a long | | | | much so that people tend to sleep for more than 10 |
| duration, the possibility of its getting worse cannot be | | | | hours everyday, and even after that feel tired on |
| overruled. It may start off slow with the person feeling | | | | getting up. It is true that the disorder can cause |
| a little low during certain seasons but may grow | | | | depression, but it is equally true that it might also be a |
| gradually into a disabling disorder affecting one's normal | | | | contributing factor. Studies have shown that those |
| life to a very large extent. It can throw one's life out of | | | | who are suffering from depression of some kind are |
| gear. | | | | more susceptible to the disorder. The studies connect |
| Generally, those suffering from this disorder feel that | | | | the disorder to lower exposure to the sun because a |
| what they are feeling is nothing more than | | | | lack of sun makes the body to produce lesser amount |
| helplessness of a temporary kind. Then, gradually it | | | | of vitamin D, which can be a cause of the disorder. |
| gets serious and the season starts making them | | | | The disorder is found to affect people of all ages but |
| increasingly depressed. It is only when the problem | | | | is not found in young children and tends to dig its claws |
| becomes unmanageable that the experts are | | | | on women of above 35. |
| approached. | | | | If there are symptoms indicating Seasonal Affective |
| Many of the studies on the subject have shown that | | | | Disorder, it is advisable that you seek expert |
| one out of every ten of us has suffered from the | | | | assistance immediately because it can sometimes be |
| disorder in some form though it cannot be considered | | | | cured simply by a making a little alteration in one's diet. |
| a disorder because it occurred once in a while. It | | | | The treatment for the disorder is relatively easy and |
| becomes a disorder only when it starts affecting a | | | | quite effective. So, there is no point in continuing to |
| person regularly and its impact disrupts one's normal | | | | suffer from it. |