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Treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression, is a mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter. When the depressive symptoms occur in summer rather than winter, the condition is often referred to as reverse seasonal affective disorder (RSAD) and can include heightened anxiety. Here are some treatments for SAD:
| | Phototherapy - Regular exposure to light that is bright, particularly fluorescent light, significantly improves depression in people with seasonal affective disorder that presents during the fall and winter. |
| | Vacation - Temporarily changing locations to a climate that is characterized by bright light (such as the Caribbean) can achieve similar results. |
| | Antidepressant medications - particularly those from the serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor family (SSRI) family. Examples of SSRIs include fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine (Paxil), and citalopram (Celexa). |
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