If you suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), you may feel sad or anxious during the fall and winter months. Other symptoms include weight gain and sleeping more than usual, as well as losing interest in activities.
SAD affects more women than men. Between 60 and 90% of the people diagnosed with SAD are women.
A diagnosis may be made if you’ve experienced symptoms during the fall and winter, but recovered with seasonal changes for at least two years in a row. Some people even experience SAD during the summer months instead of the fall and winter (reverse SAD).

SAD may be treated …read more

The b5 Media Science and Health Channel has a theme day every month. This month I missed it, due to some problems with my commute home from work, and a teensy bit of drama (we all know what that can do to a PWC!) Anyways, Angela at Breastfeeding 1-2-3 hosted it this month, and I have been doing a bit of reading on some really great posts, this led me to feeling just a little bit left out. So I figured, better late than never. So here are 10 posts from 2006, that I like just …read more

The purpose of sunlight and darkness is so we can keep our internal time clock in check. It allows us to be awake during daylight hours, and sleep during the dark ones. If you are at all like me, you have a severely messed up inner clock. I am most alert between the hours of 3:30 and 7:30 am. No matter what I do, I can’t change that fact. I have to concentrate extremely hard to get anything accomplished after 10 am. There is nothing I can do about it. I have tried …read more

 I am really new to this b5media blog group, but I understand that they have a theme day, once a month.  Today’s theme is the sun. 
Unfortunately, no sun can be found here today. 
However,sunshine is fantastic for people with CFS.  I am one of those people who love the dark.  I wear sunglasses all the time (occasionally at work) because really bright light tends to bother my eyes….plus i am just that cool.
15 minutes of sunshine can make a world of difference for a PWC.  The sun provides us with a huge dose of Vitamins D and B12, and a healthy boost …read more