Maxine Miller
SAD Workshop
SAD-Seasonal Affective Disorder is a form of depression influenced by the seasons where there exists a pattern of symptoms that recur at the same time each year. There are two types Winter SAD (winter blues) and Summer SAD (summer depression). Little is know about the latter, and the workshop will focus on Winter SAD. Even though many of the symptoms of SAD are the same for major depressive disorders there are some overriding symptoms and seasonal patterns exist for any of the following symptom(s), which improve as spring approaches:
Workshop aims
The aim of the workshop is to equip suffers with a tool bag of skills to better cope with their symptoms: This will include:
* An understanding of what SAD is and it’s possible causes
* How to monitor your symptoms
* Keeping negativity in check using cognitive approaches(thought therapy)
* How to modify your daily routines to support yourself
* How improving your diet can help
* How to use light(box) , colour and aromatherapy to assist you
Please enquire about a program for the workshop, price and dates. Booking form from colourbymax@ntlworld.com or to make a general enquiry. Places are limited per workshop. Private consultations also available. Workshops available in Hampshire, West Sussex and London.
Looking forward to helping you tap into your own resources – Maxine Miller
* Despair, misery, guilt
* Simple task frustrate
* Poor concentration / foggy memory
* `Heaviness` in limbs even joint or stomach pains
* Simple task frustrate
* Poor concentration / foggy memory
* `Heaviness` in limbs even joint or stomach pains
* In extreme cases suicidal thoughts
* Weight gain
* Excessive sleeping than normal
* Withdrawal
* Extreme fatigue
* Cravings for carbohydrates
* Low libido
* Excessive sleeping than normal
* Withdrawal
* Extreme fatigue
* Cravings for carbohydrates
* Low libido
Not to be confused with Bipolar Disorder/ Manic Depressive disorder. Whereby sufferers’ behaviour alternates between depression and mania e.g. frenzied excitement, can spiral out of control, takes uncalculated risks, easily stirred up, shows poor judgement and uncommon irritability where speech can become affected. Whilst Dysthymic Disorder is all year round depression that can persists for years and even decades.
SAD affects around 2%- 3% of people in Northern Europe very badly. Whilst about 10% cope with milder symptoms of SAD (sub- syndrome SAD). Additionally the further away one is from the equator the more cases of SAD arise except where there is snow on the ground where it becomes less common.
SAD affects around 2%-
