‘The Dark Winters bring sadness to some’
Do not want to get up in the morning, have little energy, feeling depressed, increased appetite, weight gain, headache or feeling lonely are all the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder – which could be shortened to SAD amazingly. There is no doubt that when you suffer from this disorder you are ‘SAD’.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
SAD is a disorder that is related to the weather or climatic patterns prevailing over the region. SAD is a depression that mostly occurs in dry season that are autumn and winter however few cases have come forward in which people get depression from spring and summer season.
SAD is also termed as ‘Winter depression’ as most people suffer from the disorder in cold parts of the world. This disorder is not life threatening and could be treated with therapy. Our body only wakes up in the morning when it get sunlight however as the time of sunrise and sunset changes in summer and winter therefore our body gets confused. The people in village get up early due to sunlight shining into their houses.
Why does it occur?
It occurs mainly in cold areas of the world like Alaska Canada, Russia, Ireland, northern United States and other cold areas of the globe. In the cold regions, people are exposed to limited sunlight which is considered the main reason for the disorder as the sun sets earlier.
According to a survey, about 20% of Irish people while 10% people of Netherland suffer from SAD.
How to move from SAD to happy?
People feel better after exposure to bright light which is a therapy, if people cannot get natural sunlight then they should replace that with bright artificial light and see the difference. Other then that people should do the following things;
- Exercise.
- Get some sun.
- Drink water
- Hang out with friends and family.
- Eat healthy diet.
- Go to bed early.
Pakistanis – Divided on depression!
This disorder is not much highlighted in Pakistan however PWP’s Facebook page asked the people about the seasonal depression in which most of the people were divided between summers and winters, depression in summer among southern Pakistanis is quite understandable as that part mostly remains dry and sunny.
PWP would be holding a poll to get the answers from large audience;
Pakistan Weather Portal 
I like winters a lot mostly because it don’t get that cold here in Lahore…It only becomes a little chilly during peak month of winters when whole city gets covered by fog and no sunlight on some days…I don’t like summer months as it becomes so hot it interferes with day to day chores though depression is an extreme case which i don’t get thankfully…
This disorder could occur in Dark snowy areas like in the extreme northern areas of the country, there is a possibility our soldiers that are on mountains may suffer this.
Is there any snow fall predicted on large scale in malakand division this year like happend in 2010?
There could be some heavy snowfall which are a normal factor of winter however nothing at the moment suggests of large scale snowfall.
WWhen will first widespread winter rain hit pakistan ? Specially Khyber pakhtunkhwa.?
Does not look so till December 13
i like most winter and spring seasons but when weather is cold and wet in winter…spring wet ….and summer monsoon when dark clouds came and heavy showers with thunder also my best.
when winter rain come in south punjab