How extreme metal helps me fight seasonal depression
As someone who deals with depression, January and February are hard months for me. The holidays are over, and while winter is still going full-force, the coming spring makes things more damp and dismal than snowy and cosy. The result is a decline in my mental and emotional health – I become lethargic, melancholy, and overall a bummer to be around. I don’t sleep, I eat too little or too much, and I take a ‘What’s The Point’ attitude towards work and the people in my life. This climate-based misery, commonly known as Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD (doesn’t it suck when even the acronym for your depression is also depressing?), is a slippery slope, and can lead to full-blown bouts of manic depressive that can swallow my entire world. Commonly-presc...
