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dawn mimnagh
joined 6 Nov 2003
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Posted by dawn mimnagh, 01:36 14 November 2003

Look at the time! I will be DEAD in the morning - had a friend around as hubby is working nights again. Boy does she talk, but I must be getting a bit better as I could concentrate on what she was saying and not let gloomy thoughts/anxiety intrude.

I've just been reading back though old posts (typical me - always need to do everything precisely and not half hearted) and I found a reference by Donna to feeling nausea when she started feeling SAD this year. I notice this sometimes. I am taking Sertaline and I thought it was getting used to a new antidepressant (I normally take Paroxetine and the doc changed it for some reason), but even now I get a sicky feeling - is this a SAD symptom too?

This year SAD seemed to literally happen overnight - I remember taking my kids to Woburn Safari on Sept 1, they went back to school on Sept 3 and by the 5th I certainly didn't feel right.

Although it came on fast, I got that feeling as I sometimes do that I have the power to stop it. It is only a fleeting feeling and then the cloud comes down pretty quick, but once or twice (not sure if it was winter or summer) I have managed to fight off depression before it hits, but can't normally. Anyone know that feeling?

Have any of you had depressive periods other than at SAD times? I had a couple of years in the early 1990s when I felt miserable all year round - this is when I thought I was really losing it. SAD is awful but at least it can be defined and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Other dperessive illness is worse cos it hits anytime and you just don't know for how long.

Do you think that SAD can be triggered by clinical depression following a stressful period, or will it just happen anyway??

Right that is it - off to bed. I should be shot!!

Julie in Sussex
joined 21 Jan 2003
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Posted by Julie in Sussex, 09:35 14 November 2003

Hi there Dawn ~

You are seriously a one for burning the midnight oil! But there is another bonus I reckon for having a SAD forum, there is always somewhere for all of us to go and someone to 'talk' to.

You mentioned a number of points which registered as being problems I also have. At the beginning of SAD each year I seem to have at least 2-3 weeks of nausea, a completely sluggish system, to the point that I felt I should follow a detox diet this year (never did owing to carb cravings!). I have no idea why the nausea occurs.

Sad for me too arrives literally overnight, as I awake that morning I know before I have even opened my little peepers, it's here, sod it. It's like the beginning of a jail sentence. But equally, the most debilitating effects of sad disappear overnight too, when it becomes manageable and I can function.. Having said that, the whole sad thing doesn't go till mid April.

Just about all my bouts of sad/depression are preceeded by a micro time of euphoria, so euphoria itself makes me suspicious. Except post natal depression, that just arrived like a sledge hammer and stayed with me for 2 years, only with my first though.

And your last question, well unfortunately, I feel that sad just happens no matter what. The sun fails one day to hit the right height in the sky and hey presto, sad season.

May your skies be blue and your heart light and sunny. Julie

sebrown
joined 18 Nov 2002
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Posted by sebrown, 10:21 15 November 2003

Hi all
yep I feel queasy too, I thought it was because my son has been sick over the past week, but i think i get this every winter.
feeling really bad today so no going now
sian

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