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For Utahns with seasonal depression, brighter days are here at last.
As a lifelong sufferer of SAD—Seasonal Affective Disorder—I've never fully enjoyed this time of year.
As a lifelong sufferer of SAD—Seasonal Affective Disorder—I've never fully enjoyed this time of year. SAD affects about 5% of all Americans, or about 10 million people like me who mal-adjust to there being less sunlight in the fall and winter months and who sleepily find themselves more sad, more tired, less motivated and less optimistic, all looped together by the belt that finds its way around our growing waistlines.
It's depression. It's a period when the sugar I've avoided all year long comes home to daddy. Solace resides in misery, I say.
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