Perhaps there are few people who can say with confidence that winter depression - not for them.Alas, the facts speak for themselves: one way or another, but the symptoms of winter depression and suffers from one in three.Here, domestic statistics differs little from abroad.For example, in Germany and England third of the inhabitants admitted that it's hard to carry the autumn and winter months.
What is winter depression and whether from her salvation?
Experts winter depression known as seasonal affective disorder.Perhaps this is not the definition opens the essence of depression, but only common features.Winter depression - is nothing but a violation of the emotional sphere, entailing disruption of the whole organism.If it were only the emotions!
So, depressed mood leads to sleep disorders.This is just one of the options.No, sleep disorder does not mean that you suffer from insomnia.On the contrary, you can sleep for a long time, but reducing the dream is difficult to call.Wake up and feel tired again.Sometimes it may disturb early awakening or frequent awakenings during the night.
Also, have you noticed that the attacks of sleepiness occur for no apparent reason?It seems to be sleeping 8 or even 10 hours, and in the middle of the day and closed his eyes again, the thought is not the work, but only about how to survive till the evening, come home and collapse into bed again.
Yet depression is expressed in the attachment to anything, even addiction.This means that depression often want to "seize".Food, as many think, improves mood and makes you feel a little better.So often between words winter depression and dependence on food you can put an equal sign.But this alleged "cure" depression food, or as mentioned above, the seizure - can play a cruel joke, and only aggravate the situation.As a result, there is overweight, deteriorating health, that is, once the depression worse.
In general, people would be happy to get rid of this scourge, but not so simple as previously thought.
Winter depression usually begins in November and lasts until March or April.Just think - 4-5 months are simply taken out of life!
Why is depression?
Depression is the result of a lack of sunlight, more melanin and serotonin hormones that are produced by means of the hypothalamus, and which is activated by sunlight.These hormones affect sleep, appetite, and even sex drive.
Are there ways to protect themselves, or somehow neutralize the effect of the autumn-winter depression?How to cure depression?Yes, to minimize these impacts can be.To do so, frequently visit the open air, be sure to light, the desired time of day morning.You must walk in any weather, at least half an hour a day.But the matter is complicated by the fact that many work and go to work at night - early in the morning and return in the evening when the sun by day, alas, there was nothing left.The very day you have to spend in the office, sitting at a computer.Lesson too, to put it mildly, not very good for the body.And on the weekends want one thing - to sleep, since sleep seems salutary.But, alas, often after sleep felt even more overwhelmed.So walk on weekends, go for long walks, for example, go skiing, skating, build a snowman with the kids.Laziness?Fatigue?Reluctance?And you try, show strength of will, but after such walks and active sports you will forget about all melancholy!
Excellent help and aromatherapy, massage, light therapy - that is, the inclusion of special lamps whose light is similar to sunlight.
options can be set, the main thing - your desire to get rid of the autumn-winter blues.
