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...
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