I start falling apart in October and hit rock bottom in about February. Moderate depression is my usual state, but all my slides into severe depression have been in that time span, no matter what the year. I just don't "get" fall. Everybody says, "Oh, but the leaves are so pretty!" I say, "they're changing color because they're DYING." Leaves changing depresses me because I live in Wisconsin and I know that soon everything will be bare and we'll have tons of snow. (Sometimes we have snow by Halloween, and since I've been here it's snowed as late as May 5th.) I *HATE* winter. And no, this is not the best place for me to live. :-)

So anyway, you're not alone. By sometime in November or so here, it's pitch black at 4:30 p.m. and I can hardly bear it. My pdoc recommended a light box, but they're 200 bucks and I can barely afford to feed myself, much less have 200 bucks to blow on a light box. Orvis sells lightbulbs that accomplish the same thing, 4 for $35, but I don't have that, either.

Good luck getting through it this year!

Candy

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -- Albert Camus