SAD

Greetings-

10 Days into the New Year! Back to work, back to our routines, back to school. Not feeling particularly ready for any of this, I just want to curl up under a blanket or take a hot bubble bath.
"Seasonal affective disorder, also known as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, summer blues, or seasonal depression, was considered a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer." (Wikipedia, 2014). I can't believe I just used Wikipedia as source material....any how I don't necessarily have normal mental health to begin with, hence the name Agoraphobia Gurl. Symptoms for SAD can be withdrawal, lack of sex drive, desire of carbohydrates, the inability to complete tasks or concentrate-all of the above? Most of the above-mostly just BLAH! I need to main line some melatonin.

Just try and keep it in perspective. We are mammals. I am not a tropical mammal-however it is currently appealing. The hours of sun light are minimal, and it is freaking cold out, our paleolithic ancestors would be hibernating right now!

We have some options in shaking these blues, the melatonin wasn't a joke. Make sure you get your exercise, step away from Ben and Jerry-they seem like comforting friends but it is a deception really. Feed your body, feed your soul with things that nourish and make you flourish! Don't isolate-as tempting as it is.

Patti Smith once said "Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire". I feel like I let it go, like Elsa and Marshmallow...so I guess I need to pull it back in and put it back together, and just shake it off! Hmmm-I think it is time for a nap because I just used a menagerie of Patti Smith, Taylor Swift and Disney...it is 7 pm and I think I am going to bed.

Good Night-Peace Be With You.

Love And Light,

Agorahopia Gurl

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. -George Eliot


　
　


　
Wikipedia(2014) Seasonal Affective Disorder. Retrieved at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder