Its only Sept 1st and I am freaking out about the longg winter! I suffer from Seasonal affective disorder big time, and its already wrecking havoc on my moods!!!looking for support! thanks!
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9/ 2/09 1:32am
This is why I live in AZ now and not Oregon. Though I miss all the green and my family deeply. The heat during the summer is rough and the high AC bills are stressful. I will take the change happily. I don't even seem to suffer very much with the holiday blues either. I wish you the best come the winter. Stay as active as possible.
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I used to have seasonal affective disorder and I managed to get rid of it few years ago although not 100% free of it, it's lower enough for me to even like fall and winter. But it's still there the lack of light and those very dark and grey days can be tough to not fall into depressive and mood swings but I started to break the pattern in my brain as I often do when I have a repeated reaction that conditions my life in a bad way.
Keep feeding your brain with good thoughts about fall and winter, and every time your usual internal voice starts to tell you how bad seasons are for you, stop it instantly with something else or just focusing on other issue but that.
I found out that our brain creates patterns every time something gets to us and we let it go on and on without noticing that is sometimes it's survival mode that creates phobias (in my case too) and reactions to seasons as well.
There are other things that may help you as well like light therapies, but it will not make it go away for good I think.
Repeating and blocking our brain patterns do break them and we can live free of those chains we let our brain create for our every day life.
I hope this helps.
I know the feeling, I'm very happy to be able to talk about BP, finally, with people who understand what it is!
Not my 1st site or attempt... It was getting very frustrating to find feedback or friends to talk to and to stop being so alone in dealing with BP.
About those patterns. I found that when I was fighting against a terrible phobia (agoraphobia) which was killing me and my sanity faster than BP ever did.
I did a titanic work on myself to understand who I am and what my real nature is so I could understand why I was having survival reactions from my brain every time I had to go out.
I don't remember exactly where I saw info about brain's patterns but after understanding it I managed to break vital one's to at least go out like "normal" people and have fun.
1st of all you need to find the cause, where did it start, what do you associate winter with...
And police your mind on those grey and rainy days, listen to your internal dialogue what do you hear? Sometimes it's just our internal dialogue, and other times it's something "tattooed" in our mind from repetition, which do create strong patterns like in phobias.
Everything we thing and absorb without giving much thought, stays recorded in our mind and we act on it because if you look carefully most of our thoughts just flow freely even if we don't believe in them sometimes. That's way is so common to say that our mind controls us not the other way around as it should be. I see it as a computer, we let a lot of info get inside of our puter and when we don't see the danger in some sites we visit, virus strikes and we are in trouble we just have can't finding what cause it...
In resume, we have to be responsible and filter everything we let in our mind.
I'm very happy I could bring some help and that I'm your friend to be here when and if you need me.
See you soon, be well
Alex