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Originally Posted by Happy Camper
It seems this time of year always kicks-off a subtle yet drastic change in my thought processes and behavior, namely, I go cuckoo. 
For reasons unbeknownst to me, the shorter days up here screw up some physiological process that starts in my body and brings my mind down with it. Today, the tachycardia returned and I've been borderline feverish and sweating all day despite keeping the house cold. I'm anxious, jittery, and pleasantly angry. It's awful.
I've been admitted several times for this in the past few years, always within this time period (although it's usually after the new year) and the doctors can't find anything wrong with me, but surely it can;t be psychological. My body is reacting adversely to the weather and I don't know what to do. I get really susceptible to panic as well.
This isn't SAD, or if there is a such thing as reverse SAD, there's almost no information about it at all.
Does anyone know what's happening? |
It sounds like really bad anxiety, almost everyone gets tachycardia (irregularly fast heart beat) during any form of anxiety. Sweating can be caused from anxiety too and I sweat when I have anxiety. Is there something particular that causes you to have anxiety around this time? Does Christmas stress you out?
I get manic in the winter too and I've already been hospitalized. I suffered from a mixed episode (I suffer from SAD in the winter), but I seem to be doing better.
Psychological disorders actually can cause physiological symptoms. For example, anxiety can cause IBS symptoms when the person may not have a gastro-intestinal disease.