Is the season over yet?
Seasons have been around for many years and affect many people in every way. Can seasons really change the moods of several individuals? Seasons are something that no human has effect over and are not something that anyone can change with the click of a button. The world was ordered around having seasons at specific times, but who knew it could affect lives every day. Mary Pinkowish states that, “Ten million Americans suffer from winter depression,” and that is just one season out of the four. Seasonal Affect Disorder is a real disorder that affects many people who should be carefully diagnosed, should know the symptoms and signs, and should know how to treat it.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (also called S.A.D) is a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year. Most people with Seasonal Affective Disorder have symptoms that start in the fall and may continue into the winter months, sapping energy and making someone feel moody. Less often, Seasonal Affective Disorder causes depression in the spring or early summer. Treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder includes light therapy (phototherapy), psychotherapy and medications. Being diagnosed should be taken more seriously and carefully looked at so that people can get the appropriate resources that they need. People also need to be identified correctly when getting the right help. There are many factors that may increase one’s risk of seasonal affective disorder. Being female is one of them. Seasonal Affective Disorder is diagnosed more often in women than in men, but men may have symptoms that are more severe. Living far from the equator is another risk. Seasonal Affective Disorder appears to be more common among people who live far north or ...
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...egin treatment before symptoms would normally start in the fall or winter, and then continue treatment past the time symptoms would normally go away. If someone can get control of their symptoms before they get worse, then they may be able to head off serious changes in mood, appetite and energy levels.
More information needs to be researched about the Seasonal Affective Disorder because people need to be carefully diagnosed, carefully looked at with symptoms and signs, and be treated in the most proper and helpful way there is. Seasons have been around for many years and people can not just change their lives based off of something that will always be around. This disorder is mostly found in areas farthest away from the Equator, but anyone could be affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder and all precautions need to be considered when dealing with this disorder.
Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Clear Link Between the Outside and the Inside of the Brain
It’s the year 2000, and a familiar song is being re-imagined by a French rapper. This is soon interrupted by Tommy DeVito, explaining that the 1975 song “oh what a night” by the Four Seasons, of which he was a member, is, in the year 2000, topping the charts in France for ten straight weeks. The setting then moves to 1950’s New Jersey where a teenage Tommy, looking to start a band with some of his Jersey buddies, discovers an angelic-voiced 15 year old named Frankie Castellucio. Before long, they form an unsuccessful group with the help of another kid from their working-poor New Jersey neighborhood, Nick Massi. After consistently failing to gain traction, the trio decides they need a fourth member, and, after going through several defective ones, enlist another neighborhood friend, who works at the bowling alley, to track one down. This impromptu talent scout, as it turns out, was a young Joe Pesci, far and away the most entertaining character in the musical. Pesci introduces the trio to Bob Gaudio, a talented singer, pianist and songwriter who had, at the age of 15, already written the hit song “short shorts”. Now, 17 and eager to prevent himself from becoming a one hit wonder, Gaudio joins the group. This begins a short period in which the group, which has been regularly changing its name due to its own indecisiveness, has absolutely no decent gigs or interest by record executives. This is until the group finds itself standing outside the electric sign of a club they failed to get hired by, a club by the name of The Four Seasons Suddenly inspired, Castellucio sees this sign and tells his buddies to turn around, at which point he says “oh my god, it’s a sign”. The group now decides to call itself The Four Seasons and Frankie chan...
The seasons are caused by the toilet of the Earth’s axis. It is also caused by the way the tilt of the earth is pointed at; away or towards the sun. The tilt of the earth is 23.5 degrees. There are two solstices, the summer solstice and the winter solstice. The summer solstice is when the northern hemisphere is focused on the tilt towards the sun, maximum sunlight is reached here. The winter solstice is when it is focused on the tilt away from the sun, there will be minimum sunlight. The winter builds up cold air over North America. The Earth is closer to the sun when it is winter in the northern hemisphere. The distance from the sun varies. The earth has seasons because the earth is not straight, it is tilted. The Earth's distance from the sun does not cause the seasons. Many people believe that the seasons are caused by Earth's orbit around the sun, but this is false. Winter occurs when the Earth is closest to the sun, while summer occurs when the Earth is farthest from the sun.
One major effect of Seasonal Affective Disorder is the seasonal change in sleep patterns. People who are diagnosed with SAD generally sleep for much longer periods of time during their correlating season than during the greater part of the year. Changing of sleep patterns is a common symptom of depression as well; it is only a symptom of SAD when it only occurs during a particular season. These changes can leave the patient feeling very tired. This symptom can eventually lead to sleep deprivation, which is very dangerous and even deadly.
It's wintertime, and you are gathered for the holidays with all of your family and friends. Everything seems like it should be perfect, yet you are feeling very distressed, lethargic and disconnected from everything and everyone around you. "Perhaps it is just the winter blues," you tell yourself as you delve into the holiday feast, aiming straight for the sugary fruitcake before collapsing from exhaustion. However, the depression and other symptoms that you feel continue to persist from the beginning of winter until the springtime, for years upon end without ceasing. Although you may be tempted to believe that you, like many millions of other Americans, are afflicted with a case of the winter blues, you are most likely suffering from a more severe form of seasonal depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. This form of depression has been described as a form of a unipolar or bipolar mood disorder which, unlike other forms of depression, follows a strictly seasonal pattern. (5).
According to the Mayo Clinic, Seasonal Affective disorder is a mood disorder that causes depression during the change and transitions of the seasons. It is sometimes called the “winter blues,” but this depression occurs at the same time every year. The most common type of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is Winter SAD. This is when the feeling of depression only occurs during the transition between fall and winter. The Subsyndromal SAD is similar to Winter Seasonal Affective Disorder by having the same symptoms, but it is less mild than Winter Seasonal Affective Disorder. As for the Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder, this is when the depressive symptoms occur during the transition between spring and summer, when the weather becomes hotter and the days have more sunlight exposure. Based off of a study done by McGeehin, during the summer months in places like the midwest, where summer temperatures are extremely high, if there is an increase in temperature and heat, there is then an increase in mortality in the United States. Even though there is an increase in death during the hotter, summer months, the cold, winter months still has a higher rate of deaths overall, compared to the hot summer
Seasonality causes the fluctuation in the tourism and visitor number in tourist place. Hence in some places the number of tourists in some seasons can appear more and in some places the count of tourists gets decreased.
...ty. However, it has been found effective for short term treatment. Light therapy involves sitting in front or beneath a light box that simulates the sunlight, which is missing during the darker winter months.
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As Butler and Mao (1997) had suggested we can divide seasonality into two categories that are different between them but they had the same consequences. One natural, which is influenced by three important factors: wheatear (for example, the effect that rain has on some beach activities or closed roads because of the snow), climate (hours of daylight and temperature of the destination) and geographic location (coastal, alpine…) (Commons
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The effects of sunshine on a person’s mind can also be seen over lengths of time. As the seasons run their course, most people react to the change in environmental light with a gradual shift in energy. The body seems to become slower. Motivation to do anything takes a hit. In fact, in a survey taken in Maryland, over 90% of the people surveyed reported that they noticed a change in mood, behavior, and energy levels with the change of seasons. ...
Another factor in cold weather is depression it can very easily happen to anyone when it gets so cold outside that you don’t want to leave your house. And it is often very dark or gloomy outside and that can also make you feel down and out and depressed.
A season is defined as a period of the year that is characterized by changes in weather and daylight, resulting from the interaction of the Earth’s yearly orbit around the sun and the tilt of the Earth’s axis (Khavrus & Shelevytsky, 2012). The Earth completes one revolution around the sun every 365 days, or 1 year as most people refer to. During this revolution, different areas of the Earth are pointed toward the sun, creating different seasons (see figure 1). This results in “changes in the amount of solar radiation an area receives” which affects the climate of weather of different regions on the Earth (Biggs, 2003, p. 484). The most well-known seasons, and seen most often in temperate regions of the world, include summer and winter, with spring and fall...
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