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A comment on Ask HN: How do you handle your mental lows?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you handle your mental lows? by shortoncash on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:33AM (#18706580)
I love posts like this because it makes me feel like we're all robots that came off the same factory line. Other people have given good advice, but I'll throw a random one out there:

I noticed I feel like you do basically every December through March, so much so that my git commits and activity even look to be seasonal. If this is some seasonal thing by chance, then get outside for at least 30min a day and/or get one of those lamps. Don't work in dark places or rooms either.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle your mental lows? by Down_n_Out on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:07AM (#18714294)
Could indeed be seasonal, there have been studies and it's a registered disorder[0] called SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), usually it lasts up until spring/summer. Light therapy might work as a non-drug cure.

[0]https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/seasonal-affective-di...

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