A psychologist told why depression comes in the spring
During the change of seasons, people often face depression, stress. This disorder even has a term: SAD - seasonal affective disorder. In fact, it is a process of exacerbation of mental illnesses, occurring depending on the time of year.
In the ATS risk group, accordingly, first of all, there are people suffering from certain mental illnesses - depression, schizophrenia, psychosis, paranoia, bipolar affective disorder.
Also people with nervous diseases, unstable hormonal and emotional background, addictions - alcoholism, drug addiction - are prone to ATS.
Can experience ATS and healthy people who are in a state of chronic stress, suffering from neuroses, as well as having emotional burnout syndrome.
Symptoms of spring depression
Mood swings, a sense of joylessness and a pessimistic outlook on current events. Stress can be expressed in feelings of anxiety, worry, fatigue.
Anxiety signs - emotional reactions that do not correspond to the situation (laughter in response to a report of misfortune, tears in response to a joke, etc.), disproportionate reactions to common stimuli (e.g., excessive aggression to neutral treatment).
What exactly provokes the development of ATS?
Increase in daylight hours, change of circadian rhythms (fluctuations in the intensity of various biological processes). Because of this, a person's sleep and wakefulness patterns change, which sometimes becomes a ground for stress.
The daily dose of vitamin D increases - the body also needs to adapt to this. Due to temperature fluctuations, there is also an increased load on it.
The body undergoes hormonal changes - changes in the production of melatonin and serotonin.