2024-11-27 10:37:00
Par Elisa Doré
Published on November 23, 2024 at 7:00 a.m., updated 1 hour ago
Winter seasonal depression is a recognized clinical form of depression in the psychiatry reference manual. kegfire / stock.adobe.com
This seasonal disorder affects up to one in 10 people, and should not be confused with the seasonal blues.
As fall and winter arrive, the leaves fall, the days get shorter, and gray weather takes over. For many people, these signs are a reflection of a mood that is becoming increasingly gloomy. But in its extreme variant, these “winter blues” can seriously impair quality of life and require medical treatment. This is called “winter seasonal depression”. What is it about? Can we also suffer from seasonal depression on sunny days? What are the treatments?
What is winter depression? ?
Seasonal depression must be distinguished from simple winter blues, and from “classic” depression as defined by the reference manual in psychiatry, the DSM-5. In the first case, we are talking about a passenger “slack” because of the darker days, which manifests itself in faster fatigue and difficulty in motivating yourself, “but it is not a pathology», insists David Masson, psychiatrist at the Psychotherapeutic Center…
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