Really enjoying the forum. It's heartwarming to see members supporting each other. I am thrilled to say that i did chores this morning! I am done my whole backlog of laundry! I am just overjoyed! I suspected it was a problem of an imbalance of chores and fun and i was right. Aces!

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Seems we may have a similar pattern. My mood is also low in the late Fall and Winter, when the days get so short. I've begun telling people that i have Seasonal Affective Disorder and that is pretty close to the truth. I am not yet comfortable with admitting to bipolar, so saying i have SAD is a good compromise. It gets the point across and is relatively descriptive. I'm also dreading the depression and am also trying to prepare for it. I will try and attempt a SAD lamp this Winter, tho i have yet to buy it and i should get on top of that before my mood deteriorates and i don't have the hope required to buy it. I have some vitamin D left over from last Winter which i tried with good results but it gave me insomnia and i stopped it as i like to sleep thru my depressions. I wasn't functioning well enough to reason that i should just adjust the dose and experiment. I have some Wellbutrin on hand from this Spring as i take it at the end of Winter when my depression gets severe and it flips me over into mania, which has it's own set of problems, but better manic and alive than depressed and dead. I will take a lesson from my recent experiment that i MUST balance fun and chores and attempt to have some fun this Winter. Having fun in the Winter is a tall order, but all i can do is try. I have a made a new friend who is a former competitive skier and she's keen on us going skiing but that's an all-day project and i doubt i'll have the energy for that. Short trips to the mall and my drop-in might be all i can handle. I'll follow your story with interest and let's see if we can both help each other to have an easier time of it!