Comparing Seasonal Affective Disorder And The Joy Of Summer

Summer is perhaps the most long awaited season, who doesn’t love long summer days, short warm nights? It is a time filled with adventure, friends, and family. Summer is also filled with many activities such as: hikes, camping, barbeques, beach days, the enjoyment never seems to end. Summer just seems to contain so much beauty; radiant skies, the sunsets always leaving you in awe, lighting bugs that illuminate the summer nights, the tranquility that is felt all season long, nothing can ever compare to summer. As well as being a time of relaxation, summer is a time of mental normalization for some. People who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder also known as SAD look forward to summer the most because that’s the season their mind is at its’ healthiness. …show more content…
Fall is coming, the time of crunchy leaves, overly hyped pumpkin spice lattes, spooky festivities, and a month of gluttony. Most people view this as an exciting transition, but others dread the change. If fall wasn’t hard enough, winter follows, and hits you 10 times harder. You feel detached from your true self, your soul becomes as cold as the weather. For you do not think of building snowmen, and drinking hot coco, no, you think of loneliness, and the feeling of desperation seeps through your bones. This is how patients with Seasonal Affective Disorder feel. “Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that's related to changes in seasons (mayoclinic.org)”. People who suffer from SAD view fall and winter as a dark and miserable era, but the way our weather has currently been behaving these people live in a bipolar state of