Wednesday 8 December 2010

Help Create Some Sunshine

I was reading some other stuff and came across a mental sickness called S.A.D., short for Seasonal Affective Disorder.  It is a form of depression that occurs only during the cold and gloomy months of the year, when days are inevitably shorter than the nights.


The symptoms of SAD patients being:
  • Depressed or irritable mood
  • Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities.
  • Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain or decrease or increase in appetite.
  • Insomnia or hypersomnia.
  • Agitation or retardation.
  • Fatigue or loss of energy.
  • Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt.
  • Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
  • Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying).

Don't be sad if some or even all of the above apply as I think the majority of the world's population in the northern hemisphere is prone to SAD right now is it not?

Let's say later on, if you see the waitress wearing a pin that says her name is Kitty, when she approaches you, you can say, "Hello Kitty."  I think she will do nothing but smile and say "Hello" back to you. 

Congratulations.  You have just created sunshine.  


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