Seasonal Affective Disorder and Why It Sucks So Bad

When we went looking for information on the condition known as
seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, one of the first things we
noticed was that some people aren’t even calling it that anymore.
The website for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI),
for instance, uses the term “major depressive disorder with a
seasonal pattern”, which means an acronym of MDDWASP. Here at
Depresh Mode, we’re perfectly fine referring to it as “mud wasp”.
On this episode of the show, we talk with NAMI’s chief medical
officer, Dr. Ken Duckworth, about how it’s similar to and
different from traditional depression and what one could do to
deal with it. With Ken, we discuss the less common and less
understood spring and summer variety of MDDWASP. We also hear
from Joy and Christina from our Preshies group on Facebook about
their experiences.


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