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Why you feel blue when the sun shines

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Many of us are sunflowers: We need lots of sunshine to thrive, grow tall and blossom. A few of us are more like the trillium you find on the forest floor, a shade-loving, spring-blooming perennial woodland wildflower. Most of are probably more like shamrocks, which are happiest in bright, but not direct sunlight. One chance [...]

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Desperately seeking summer

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“Is light therapy good for summer depression?” “I’m sad when it’s cloudy.” “Why am I sad in warm weather?” I am touched by the Google searches finding my posts about warm weather blues and Summer SAD. If you’re feeling consistently blue during the summer, it may be Summer SAD, or it may not. While less [...]

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Fighting the Warm Weather Blues

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Caught by the Calendar Most of the articles you read on Seasonal Affective Disorder confidently state that SAD disappears with the onset of spring. And what if it doesn’t? It is now mid June in Michigan and I’m not sure I can say I’ve shaken off all of the spring depression I had this season. [...]

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Winter’s Quiet Starts to Fade

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The sun is shining for the sixth consecutive day (the longest stretch we’ve had all winter), the temperatures have been dancing into the 40s and 50s°F and much of the snow has melted. It looks like spring might truly arrive. And one of the things I love about winter will fade away, too. The quiet.

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Sunless Days Mean January Struggles

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In the Northern Hemisphere we’ve gained about 1 minute per day of sunlight since the winter solstice, the official start of winter, on Dec. 21. Have you noticed? I haven’t. Other than a couple of afternoons when it still seemed to be a bit lighter when I left work, January has been almost a continual [...]

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