What are Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
‘Winter Blues’ refers to a set of symptoms many people get in the short daylight months (typically September to March), including sadness, fatigue, decreased libido, difficulty concentrating, irritability, increased sleep and appetite, carbohydrate craving and weight gain.SAD is the severe form of Winter Blues, so that you become clinically depressed and other symptoms become seriously debilitating.A key feature of Winter Blues and SAD is that symptoms appear as daylight decreases in the fall and disappear as daylight increases in the spring.
