Rosana Horowitz

SAD With Friends - Finding Support Groups

Like in every other situation in life, SAD becomes much easier to tolerate if you have the support of those people around you. Such people can listen to you, comfort you, provide a better understanding of your situation and help you deal with the symptoms... Read >

Eating For SAD - What Are The Long Term Affects Of SAD

SAD can cause people suffering from it to crave more sweet things, and thus they tend to over consume these. Carb-rich foods increase depression and tiredness. This also results in them putting on a considerable amount of weight during winter. Therefore, ... Read >

SAD Or Just Sad, How To Tell The Difference

Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is commonly known as SAD, is a condition which may trigger depression and feelings of lethargy along with fatigue and many other problems. SAD is different from sadness in a way that people suffering from SAD may experie... Read >

How SAD Can Affect your Life

Imagine that for every working hour, you had to take fifteen minutes off from it. Now imagine a person's life with SAD. For every year, one out of four seasons becomes a time where the person cannot function to his best or function at all. Productivity is... Read >

Music And SAD – Can You Dance The Blues Away?

Music is how you interpret it. People may tune into some hard rock to have a fun-filled night out. Others may choose soul music to unwind. Others use it to express anger or love. Music is also a great therapeutic tool to cure depression. It has been scien... Read >

Is Seasonal Affective Disorder Hereditary?

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is also known as "winter depression" or the "winter blues". This is a mood disorder that affects otherwise mentally healthy people in the autumn and winter months year after year. These people may start sleeping a lot mor... Read >

Fighting SAD. Get Diagnosed And Get Help.

There are many of us who get the winter blues and don't like all the gloom and the darkness. This leads to depression, and people can become lethargic as well. Throughout medical history, it can be observed that winter is the season which brings depressio... Read >

Laughing Away SAD – The Perfect Tonic for Winter Blues

The United Kingdom has a reputation for being obsessed with the weather. We talk about it, think about it, read about it and write about it. Such engrossment is only natural as there is no other single factor that plays such a part in unifying us in one c... Read >

Finding the Right Balance in Life

The last thirty years have seen major changes in the way we live and work in the U.K. One of the most obvious being the increase in numbers of women in employment, particularly mothers with young children. At the turn of this century the number of women o... Read >

Short-term Happiness is no Substitute for Long-term Health

As the clocks go back, we are all faced head-on by the looming prospect of a long, dark winter. The changing seasons have a variety of effects from person to person, whilst even the most exuberant of us may well feel disheartened by the gloom that lies ah... Read >

Singing the SAD Blues – Practical Advice on How to Stay Bright This Winter

For increasing numbers of us, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a spectre on the horizon - if it has not caught up with us already. Many people already suffer from SAD - which is a strong varient of the ‘Winter Blues' - and it is this time of year th... Read >

How Our Ingenuity Made Us SAD

Ever since Thomas Edison developed his version of the electric light bulb in 1879, it has been heralded as one of the most influential advancements in scientific history, changing the way we live and work forever. However, this change has not always been ... Read >

Finding Yourself SAD – Relief From Seasonal Blues

SAD is the acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder. A legitimate mood-related disorder, it stems from the deterioration of the long hours of daylight into the long winter hours of darkness. The disruption to the body's internal clock with the changing lig... Read >

Turning the Tide Against SAD

It has been another summer of "ifs" and "when's". The downpour that has reportedly seen the U.K.'s wettest summer has literally dampened many spirits to a point seemingly of no return. A few bright weeks in September and October can't make up for what has... Read >