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Kelda:
Wow, Friend, that's more words than you've spoke in the past two weeks!
well, I'm glad you're feeling better now that the clock have changes - it sounds like a reverse SAD almost it sounds like..
I defintely think the darker mornings and nights (mostly mornings) have an effect on my mood and activity level.
And I defintiely know what you mean about how work can effect that - we were threatened with redundancy earlier in the year - and i dont think i realised until I came out the other side just how stressed I was. It's still a bit stressful as people leave and nmopve on and change teams as aresult of that shuffle... and we have further ££ cutbacks to come I'm sure...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Kelda on November 08, 2010, 10:27:18 am ---It sounds like a reverse SAD almost it sounds like..
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That's an interesting way to put it, or think of it. I've never been clinically diagnosed with SAD--that is, I've never had a doctor tell me that I have it--but I certainly have a history of being "chronically down" during the winter months. (Sometimes that doesn't happen. It didn't the winter following the release of BBM, and it really didn't last winter, when we actually had a winter--with lots of snow--around here.) But it sure does sound like a "reverse SAD."
Another thing that's crossed my mind to wonder about it is whether in some bizarre way it's related to my allergies. I don't much ever have allergy symptoms because I'm taking medication, fexofenadine, a generic form of Allegra, year round. But it's notable that my allergies "historically" came on in the spring and were bad in the summer and then got better in the fall (with the caveat that I'm also said to be allergic to stuff like house molds and dust, which you can never really escape).
louisev:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 08, 2010, 11:35:18 am ---That's an interesting way to put it, or think of it. I've never been clinically diagnosed with SAD--that is, I've never had a doctor tell me that I have it--but I certainly have a history of being "chronically down" during the winter months. (Sometimes that doesn't happen. It didn't the winter following the release of BBM, and it really didn't last winter, when we actually had a winter--with lots of snow--around here.) But it sure does sound like a "reverse SAD."
Another thing that's crossed my mind to wonder about it is whether in some bizarre way it's related to my allergies. I don't much ever have allergy symptoms because I'm taking medication, fexofenadine, a generic form of Allegra, year round. But it's notable that my allergies "historically" came on in the spring and were bad in the summer and then got better in the fall (with the caveat that I'm also said to be allergic to stuff like house molds and dust, which you can never really escape).
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I am violently allergic to a lot of molds, too, and they are worse in autumn, but when the weather gets cold enough to freeze at night is when mold populations plunge, and the lowest mold levels are when there is snow cover on the ground. So if you had a good winter when there was a lot of snow it could very well be that your tiredness is directly correlated to mold levels. I know it is true of me, during high mold times I wake up headachy and drowsy and just do NOT want to get out of bed.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: louisev on November 08, 2010, 11:39:44 am ---I am violently allergic to a lot of molds, too, and they are worse in autumn, but when the weather gets cold enough to freeze at night is when mold populations plunge, and the lowest mold levels are when there is snow cover on the ground. So if you had a good winter when there was a lot of snow it could very well be that your tiredness is directly correlated to mold levels. I know it is true of me, during high mold times I wake up headachy and drowsy and just do NOT want to get out of bed.
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Wow! That's an interesting thought, Louise, about the molds and mold spores, I mean. I could be wrong but I think I remember reports from last spring that after the snowy winter we had, mold spores were particularly high in the spring. OK, lately they always seem to be high, but I'm talking "higher than high."
louisev:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 08, 2010, 11:47:28 am ---Wow! That's an interesting thought, Louise, about the molds and mold spores, I mean. I could be wrong but I think I remember reports from last spring that after the snowy winter we had, mold spores were particularly high in the spring. OK, lately they always seem to be high, but I'm talking "higher than high."
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If you check the mold levels in the online weather pages you may be able to correlate them to your apparently subjective feelings of fatigue. They may not be so subjective as you think!
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