𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙳𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝙲𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝙰 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝙳𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚃𝚘 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙼𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑
Last week the US became the latest country to go through the annual ritual of setting the clocks back one hour. That adds the US population to the millions of other people in the Northern Hemisphere that see the sun routinely setting around, or even before, 5pm.
Shorter and darker days can quite literally have an effect on all of our mental health. Seasonal Affective Disorder, which might have the most appropriate acronym ever (SAD), is a type of depression common in countries where days are shorter — and it even shows up in Google data. People search for "depression" approximately 25-30% more in the winter months relative to the summer.
Around 5% of US adults are thought to affected by SAD and it manifests itself like all other types of depression; low-energy, anxiety, over-eating, sluggishness, melancholy or apathy.
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