Not Wanting Summer to End....

My summer vacation time is almost over. I do not like this at all. When I was trying to decide what my major of study would be, I decided on Elementary Teaching because anyone could teach to little people and I would have three months in the summer off. Well, that was in the late 70's and it is now 2008. We had just a little over two months this summer. NOT FAIR. I was not happy when the calendar was voted to have two full weeks at Christmas. That sucks big time. I get so bored then.

I am a person who has SSAD's. Subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder,a milder form of SAD,a mood disorder whose sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or, less frequently, in the summer, repeatedly, year after year, experienced by an estimated 14.3% vs. 6.1% of the U.S. population.[9]

The blue feeling experienced by both SAD and SSAD sufferers can usually be dampened or extinguished by exercise and increased outdoor activity, particularly on sunny days, resulting in increased solar exposure.

Last Winter I would come home from work and sit in the recliner from about 330 to whenever I would go to bed. I would eat potato chips, I mean big bag of potato chips or other types of foods like this.

Thank goodness there is a way to treat this disorder, some people make a climate change by moving, others use 'light therapy', then there is the use of anti-depressants for the duration of the 'non-sunny' days of winter, or a combination of all three if it is severe enough.

I was diagnosed this at the beginning of spring, 2008. I have always had issues with winter, but I started tanning through the winter months for the past several years almost daily. But the scare of skin cancer is in the back of my mind so the winter of 2008 I did not tan as much. This is when the symptoms became more and more obvious. It was only because I sought counseling for other issues in my life, aka SSDD stuff, that we discovered the SSAD I had. NOT DEPRESSION as we initially thought. Yes I have had issues that would cause depression, but nothing was going on in my life that would have created the depression.

I a slight case of the SSAD when we had an enormous amount of rainy days during spring. Winter has become a time I just really hate. I do not like the cold and I really do not like the dreariness of the days without sunshine.

So that is why I am not ready for my job to begin. I do not like the months of dreariness. The months without sunshine. I can see it in my students too. When the weather starts getting nice and the sun is shining! Wow watch out. It is nothing like the full moon............no sirreee....it is worse. You just have to love the sun though. I know if I would be in the time of worshiping of gods I definitely would be a SUN worshiper.

So enough for this day. I have other things to do besides dwell on the awful weather to come. It is a bright sunny day and I intend on being in it!!! Basking in all my glory...getting the smallest of tan lines I can.