Today is going to be an awesome day! I love when I wake up with this energy! Of course, it helps when the sun is beaming through the windows. See, I tend to suffer from this thing called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). No, I've never been officially diagnosed, never taken the time to go to the doctor for a $50 + visit so she can tell me my mood depends on the weather when that's something that's been quite evident since high school. Actually, I really might consider it sometime. I hate the idea of medication unless I'm really sick or really in pain, so I mainly try to just get my extra Vitamin C and occasionally go to the tanning bed. In high school, my friend would get aggravated because I slept so much in the fall/winter. Once she made the comment, "Here we go again. I always lose my best friend from October to March!"
But really, it is quite agonizing. I used to just think I got really wore down in the fall/winter because I had so much going on at school. Dad thought I was lazy for sleeping so much when I was really young, doctors thought I had mono all the time, and teachers thought I didn't like school. But as I got older, I noticed a physical pattern that suggested more than just a dislike for the cold months. Migraines became frequent and excessive, I was lethargic ALL the time, my body ached constantly, and I usually fell into hard, deep sleeps that lasted 10-12 hours. There were many nights I fell asleep doing homework just to wake up in a puddle of drool the next morning as the alarm blared for the start of a new day. Even then, I wasn't ready to get up.
So here we are at the preface of another autumn month. Some days it is warm, but the nights are surely frigid. Some days, like today, are filled with sunshine, whereas some days are nothing but gloomy overcast. Today is one of those rare bright AND warm days that I am anxious to take advantage of. Pretty soon it will be time for me to hibernate!
The ultimate solution would be to move as close to the Equator as possible, but that hasn't happened yet, so I'll just have to keep up the Vitamin C intake for now.
1 comment:
You should push hard to not allow the seasons to bring you down. S.A.D. Wow! You diagnosed yourself...It could be something different. To make sure your health is okay, $50's is nothing to get a clean bill of health....Think about it..saving 50 bucks or saving your health.
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