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    Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    I go to work and its half dark, I go home and its dark.

    Its dank its not cold but its not warm

    Where has the summer gone .

    Never consider id suffer from SAD syndrome but maybe I do, maybe I really am a SAD person

    Apart from going on a dance holiday to the gran canaries next week I cant think of anything that can lift me in the depths of winter

    Do other people suffer from being SAD (season deficiency disorder). Ok im back under the duvet now with a torch looking at holiday brochures, tell me when its spring

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    I really am a SAD person
    Self-knowledge can be so...painful.

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    The thing I hate most about winter is what it does to my skin. I always feel pale and pastey looking during the winter.

    I wish I could have a tan all year without having slap on a load of fake stuff that looks like you have spilt gravy all over your legs & rubbed tan boot polish in to your elbows.

    I need a holiday.

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    I like winter.

    Spent all my summer this year in someone else's winter. And the same again next year.

    Won't have seen summer for 3 years!

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Do other people suffer from being SAD (season deficiency disorder).
    I'm sure there is at least one other thread about this...could someone be kind enough to help this technoclot?

    Light boxes definitely help.

    Try an aromatherapy oil to lift your mood. I use grapefruit and ginger oils iin the bath or diluted in a carrier oil and used as perfume; grapefruit wakes me with its fresh citrus smell and reminds me of the summer sun, ginger warms and comforts me.

    You could consider homeopathy, herbs, the crystal 'sunstone' or even a flower essence/remedy too.
    Last edited by Aleks; 22nd-November-2006 at 11:38 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    The thing I hate most about winter is what it does to my skin. I always feel pale and pasty
    Well I'm a Scot.. it takes me a week of sunbathing just to turn white. I am naturally a very pale blue colour.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp View Post
    I like winter.
    Me too.. apart from the continual falling down and landing on my backside. I lack the skills most kids form when out playing in the snow. I'm even more unsure on my feet in icy conditions than most elderly people. It got so bad I actually took to wearing knee, elbow and wrist pads to save the pain.. until people started laughing at me.. these days I use the ample padding on my derrière instead

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    I bought one of these and it makes a HUGE difference!

    The one I bought was the Sunrise System UK Model SRS100UK, my alarm goes off at 06:00, so at about 05:30 it starts to very slowly and gradually turn my bedside light on, getting to full brightness after half an hour, when the alarm gently wakes me up to an already light room, its lovely.

    They may be expensive, but they are well worth the investment, I get really down in the winter, I don't know if its SAD, but its down to the lack of sunlight, not the weather, this has really helped.

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    Light boxes definitely help.

    Try an aromatherapy oil to lift your mood. I use grapefruit and ginger oils iin the bath or diluted in a carrier oil and used as perfume; grapefruit wakes me with its fresh citrus smell and reminds me of the summer sun, ginger warms and comforts me.

    You could consider homeopathy, herbs or even a flower essence/remedy too.
    So having a lot of sex doesnt help then

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    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    So having a lot of sex doesnt help then
    I wondered how long it would take...........how soon before this one goes upstairs?

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    So having a lot of sex doesnt help then
    It probably would - do you have someone to share that with?
    I expect DIY would do just as well .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    It probably would - do you have someone to share that with?
    I expect DIY would do just as well .
    Great...I have a black & decker drill you can borrow Stewart. There are a few holes that need drilling round my place if you need to cheer yourself up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Great...I have a black & decker drill you can borrow Stewart. There are a few holes that need drilling round my place if you need to cheer yourself up
    I thinkk he was planning to bring his own tool(s).
    There's an offer you can't refuse

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    I get up at 6 every morning & get home at 6 at night. I don't think I have opened the curtains in my house this week. How depressing is that?

    If I was rich, I would spend summer in England then go somewhere warm & light for our winter. Perhaps returning to England for 2 weeks for Christmas and New Year, to roast my chestnuts on an open fire.

    Whether you suffer from SAD or not, I think most people get fed up with dark cold mornings and blue skin.

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    It probably would - do you have someone to share that with?
    I expect DIY would do just as well .
    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Great...I have a black & decker drill you can borrow Stewart. There are a few holes that need drilling round my place if you need to cheer yourself up
    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    I thinkk he was planning to bring his own tool(s).
    There's an offer you can't refuse
    Ooooer missus.
    Keep making offers like that you'll have "handymen" queuing up to show you their tools!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Ooooer missus.
    Keep making offers like that you'll have "handymen" queuing up to show you their tools!
    Offers like what?

    I just need a man with half a brain to come and do some DIY for me....don't know what you bunch of pervs are talking about.

    Note to self.......make that quarter of a brain. Don't want to price myself out of the market

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post

    Whether you suffer from SAD or not, I think most people get fed up with dark cold mornings and blue skin.
    These feelings are well expressed in 'Come Back ( Light Therapy)' by Josh Rouse which I've been playing occasionally lately.

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by DJ Andy View Post
    These feelings are well expressed in 'Come Back ( Light Therapy)' by Josh Rouse which I've been playing occasionally lately.
    Sounds like a nice uplifting tune to cheer us all up

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Sounds like a nice uplifting tune to cheer us all up
    Oh well...please yourself!
    ...how about 'Rainy Days And Mondays' by The Carpenters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DJ Andy View Post
    Oh well...please yourself!
    ...how about 'Rainy Days And Mondays' by The Carpenters.
    Carpenter? Carpenter? I need one of those to fill my holes up

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    Re: Winter Blues or is it just SAD

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Carpenter? Carpenter? I need one of those to fill my holes up
    You are going to get this one sent upstairs for sure

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