Posted by SadDoggie on February 25, 2005, at 14:17:12 [reposted on February 26, 2005, at 3:08:00 | original URL]
In reply to Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder, posted by Run_Wild on February 25, 2005, at 11:41:47
Hi,
Well I used to have it, and I was also a fledgling writer! What a coincidence. SSAD is the strangest thing. While everybody else is getting depressed in the winter time and having a great time in the summer, you are plunging into depression in the summer. I got it various times throughout my teen years, and the last one was a big one, it made me suicidal. Every summer I would think about other summer's gone by, about a girl I liked then, get nostalgic, I would obsess about it, and eventually get into a deep depression. A lot of people during this time of depression also look at the outside world and think everybody's enjoying themselves outside except themselves. That seems to be the nature of the beast. Now a decade later my mental disorder is much more serious. No more summer depressions, just ongoing depression, non-working medications, my disorder is just much more complicated. I'm not trying to scare you or anything, it doesn't mean this is going to happen to you. For you a psychiatrist would prescribe something like prozac or something and you'll probably get better. Good Luck.
SadDoggie> Greetings! I suffer from Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder and am hoping to connect with others who have the same condition. It's not even the end of February and I'm already starting to dread the summer months.
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> I've done quite a bit of research on Summer SAD and have been disappointed by how little information there is. I'm a fledgling feature writer and am putting together a piece to submit to several magazines. I hope that I can begin a dialog with some Summer SADs and include their experiences in the piece.
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> Any other Summer SADs out there who want to talk?
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