Thread: Can people with bipolar 1 have SAD?
View Single Post
 
Old Sep 16, 2013, 06:38 AM
A Red Panda's Avatar
A Red Panda A Red Panda is offline
Grand Magnate
  
Member Since: May 2013
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 4,166
Quote:
Originally Posted by medicalfox View Post
I wonder how it is for people living in colder climates. The winters where I live are brutal and in the winter it's about 30°F daily for several months. It's super cold, sometimes snow, and less sunlight. Is it the decrease of sunlight in winter that causes SAD or is it winter itself?
30F??

Sorry. I'm from a very Northern climate - we get between -40C and -50C, which is -40F and -58F. At the darkest time of year the we get 7 hours between sunrise and sunset. At the lightest we get about 17 hours.

I've only been here for two years so far, and I have bp2. Season's don't affect my mood significantly - SAD is an individual thing and not associated with BP1 nor BP2 I believe.

I have depressions and hypomanis at random. There is zero rhyme or reason to them, although I do tend to get triggered by Christmas and my birthday (in August). So I tend to go into a depression around those times.

((And MM - how can you tell which lights are full-spectrum? Do they just say full-spectrum? I got overwhelmed in the light bulb aisle the other day!))
__________________
"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, of ships, of sealing wax, of cabbages, of kings! Of why the sea is boiling hot, of whether pigs have wings..."

"I have a problem with low self-esteem. Which is really ridiculous when you consider how amazing I am.
Reply With QuoteReply With Quote