Do the winter days get you down?
Winter is dark due to short days, gloomy with overcast skies, damp, cold, and not much outside is green with life. Depending on how long this season lasts in your area, maybe it can bring you down, perhaps without even consciously noticing it. Some people feel more irritable, or have increased fatigue, others feel depressed, and there are those who feel a general but persistent restlessness which is only satisfied with the full onset of Spring.
It's called a few things: cabin fever, winter blues, hibernation, seasonal depression, or (in clinical cases) seasonal affective disorder. Do you ever suffer from it? How do you cope?
Not at all. | 26 | |
Maybe on rare occasion. | 7 | |
Mildly. | 10 | |
Only near the end of winter. | 5 | |
Usually it does, but it's not a problem for me. | 9 | |
It affects me a lot. | 16 | |
I've been diagnosed with SAD | 5 |