SAD

I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. Just curious if anyone else deals with this and if it can in any way be linked to TMS. Looking back, it seems like most of my attacks or symptoms happened in the fall/winter months. After the time change, Im pretty well useless and unbearable to be around.

 

Hi, Rsoup. I always liked winter (less noisy) but now I am 85 I miss the sunshine and warmth of summer. Cloudy, rainy days are bummers, but I find ways to brighten them... Put on more lights at night, keep warm, remind myself how lucky I am to have a nice little house and darling dog to keep me company. I'm 85 and tell myself THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

 

again, our bodies are ill suited to modernity with electric lighting not helping. Get a SAD light and use it for an hour before 9am. Our circadian rhythms have immense power over processes in our bodies. It isn't TMS per se . light therapy is showing promise for ordinary depression instead of pills.



http://caloriesproper.com/the-incredible-camping-experiment-circadian-proper/

 

I came from a country near the equator, so the US winter is pretty tough on me when I was diagnose with SAD. It got worst with time. I got rid of it with Sarno's and Claire Weekes' teaching. I love winter and all the holidays that came with it. To me, SAD is mind body for sure.
Light therapy can help if you believe it will. But I didn't want to use it because I don't want to depend on anything beside my mind.

 

There are light sensitive cells below the horizon of the eye that were only recently discovered to play a role in melantonin secretion/suppression

https://delayed2sleep.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/53-light-therapy-white-blue-or-maybe-green/

TMS might play a role in reinforcing this but please don't ignore proven findings on this.