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Originally Posted by sophiesmom
I came across a term, recently that was new to me. I thought of you straight away. It's 'unipolar depression'. It's simply another term for major depressive disorder but, to me, it seemed more to describe 'waves' of depression.
Like being bi-polar but without the added 'benefit' of the highs. Just lows and nothings.
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Thats me unipolar. I have heard that before. Lows and nothings and numb.
What is also weird about mine and the cycles it that they have always been triggered by a change in seasons. I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder but it is kind of similar. Over the years it has always been at the same times of year that I would dive into one. In California where I spent most of my life they actually do have seasons, well at least in northern. When fall went to winter and the rainy season would start I would dive into one. Then when spring went to summer and the first time it got real hot I would dive into one. Usually mid summer as well. The winter ones would last longer.
I was reading today about melatonin. Just about everything is about SAD and every day sleep cycles when it comes to melatonin but I did find one article about a guy who had a bad depression every summer five years straight and a doc successfully treated him with melatonin. A low dose in the afternoon which is kind of counter intuitive. Apparently melatonin also plays a role in how we adjust to changes in the season. I am going to try taking some each afternoon. I did have one pdoc who called it a diurnal rhythm.