Warm sunny days make you feel more gloomy and sad. This may lead you to seasonal depression. This Seasonal Affective Depression(SAD) is becoming a worse situation in the field of mental health.
SAD is a form of depression. Basically, the lack of energy and happy feeling we get from the glorious sun on our faces comes from a disruption in our hormones. Serotonin and melatonin—the happy chemicals—are depleted. This can cause us to have issues with sleep, make us feel moody, and generally mess with our ability to feel good.
SAD is a form of depression and many doctors prescribe antidepressants to their patients to deal with the symptoms.
How to Overcome SAD?
Exercise
Any form of raising your heart rate for 30 minutes a day helps to ease depression. When we exercise, we release endorphins like serotonin and dopamine. These can make us happy. Regular workouts can keep us to keep and maintain a healthy body mass index.
Keep your Heart Open
Think of a happy time you experienced in past. Let your heart feel the same once again. It was a time of unlimited energy availed. Even if you didn’t eat or sleep, you felt like you could stay up all night with a smile on your face. Trying to cultivate that deep sense of love through having an open heart can defy the dark, cold, dreary days of winter. Do things you love. Be around people you love.
Listen to Music that Improves your Mood
Music has the magical power of healing our hearts. Listening to green songs (something that relates to nature, water, and its beauty) can bring your mind to happiness. More than that though, music makes you want to move your body, and can open your heart and make you feel something, as opposed to just feeling numb when you’re going through a bout of depression. Let it take over your whole body and soul.
Be Grateful to Shift your Mindset
You can practice simple magic even though you have busy schedules. Try to write or jot down every morning a few things I am grateful for. It doesn’t matter where you are, it is a powerful way to shine a light on the darkness of negative thoughts that come up.
MeditationÂ
Symptoms of SAD that can really bring you down include anxiety and depression. Meditation can help to calm the mind down and has been proven to boost serotonin, which is what governs our ability to feel pleasure. When you meditate daily, you learn to shift your attention. Meditation is the art of being able to acknowledge thoughts as objects. Meditation allows us to witness the thoughts going on in our heads. We can just watch instead of falling into the pit of despair the ego-mind wants to drag us into.
Plan a Spiritual Vacation Getaway
Taking a vacation in the sun can give us something to look forward to. The feeling you get when the sun hits your skin upon arriving at a tropical destination—well, there’s nothing like it. We can feel our pores opening, take in a blast of vitamin D, and taste the freedom that comes with knowing we can sleep as late as we want. These vacations can bring us back to life.
We can go for a retreat too. A calm and peaceful place that can gift you beautiful days. Going to a retreat where you can take in yoga, eat healthy food, and get together with other people is a deep form of rejuvenation and where a place to get spiritual talks. And the memory of it can stay in your mind to warm the winter days ahead.
These months aren’t always easy, but offering yourself a dose of self-care can make a big difference in how you manage them.