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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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This mood disorder affects more than 500,000 people every winter. Symptoms can include depression, fatigue, social withdrawal, weight gain, irritability, and even suicidal thoughts.

5 Great Resources on Seasonal Affective Disorder

• MedlinePlus: Basics, causes, treatment, and coping
• Wikipedia: Pathophysiology, treatment, famous sufferers, and other resources
• Mayo Clinic: Signs and symptoms, causes, when to seek medical advice
• WebMD: Symptoms, tests, treatment overview, and related information
• Healthwise: General overview of causes, symptoms, treatment options, and living with SAD

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What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

• Mental Health America: Definition, prevalence, symptoms, causes, treatments, and other resources
• Yale University Dept. of Psychiatry: "What is Winter Depression?"
• FamilyDoctor: Description, symptoms, and treatment suggestions

What Are The Symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder?

• National Alliance on Mental Illness: Symptoms, patterns, and treatment
• eMedicineHealth: Symptoms, links to addtional topics on SAD
• Psychology Today: Symptoms, causes, treatment, and more resources

What Are The Causes and Complications of Seasonal Affective Disorder?

• HealthLine: - Causes, incidence and risk factors
• AOL Health: Facts, causes, symptoms, complications, diagnosis, and treatment
• University of Tennessee Medical Center: Definition, causes, symptoms, complications

What Are The Treatments and Medications for Seasonal Affective Disorder?

• Cleveland Clinic: Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy
• HealthyMinds: Tips for Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Food and Drug Administration: FDA Approves the First Drug for Seasonal Depression
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Properly Timed Light, Melatonin Lift Winter Depression by Syncing Rhythms
• BrightenYourLife: Online book about bright light therapy, also downloadable as Adobe PDF
• Columbia University: Columbia University Winter Depression Program - Medication, light and ion therapy

What Are The Holistic and Alternative Treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder?

• Holistic Online: Bright light therapy, negative ion therapy and other treatments
• DeliciousLivingMag: Supplements, light therapy, exercise, diet and dawn simulation
• Cedars-Sinai: Complementary alternative therapies
• CounsellingResource: Advice on healthy eating and exercise to help ward off effects of SAD before annual time change

Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs about Seasonal Affective Disorder

• KidsHealth: Story of one teenager's struggle with SAD
• Circadiana: Blog by SAD sufferer
• Eons: Seasonal Affective Disorder and Me
• HealthCentral: Getting the Winter Blues: My Experience with Seasonal Affective Disorder
• LiveJournal: "SAD Skeptics": One sufferer's experience with people who don't understand the condition
• Everyone Needs Therapy: - Seasonal Affective Disorder--I'm Sharing about SADS Therapist's blog about personal exerience with SAD and other mental health topics

Foundations and Support Groups on Seasonal Affective Disorder

• The Seasonal Affective Disorder Association: Longest running support and information association for SAD
• Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms: Dedicated to light treatment for SAD, jet lag, and other mood disorders
• Center for Environmental Therapies: Nonprofit professional agency dedicated to education and research on the new environmental therapies

Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Seasonal Affective Disorder

• SeasonalSAD.com: Forum about SAD
• Yahoo! Groups: Message board for SAD sufferers
• Google Groups: Group for Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder
• HealthBoards: SAD-related posts on Bipolar Disorder Message Board

Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Seasonal Affective Disorder

• PubMed: Seasonal Affective Disorder Articles
• PubMed: Dawn simulation and bright light in the treatment of SAD: a controlled study
• PubMed: The Can-SAD study: a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of light therapy and fluoxetine in patients with winter seasonal affective disorder
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): Dawn's Early Light to Twilight's Last Gleaming...

Clinical Trials on Seasonal Affective Disorder

• ClinicalTrials.gov: List of clinical trials
• PregnancyLight.org: Ongoing clinical trial providing light treatment for depression during pregnancy, sponsored by Yale University, Columbia University, and University of Pittsburgh

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