autumn and winter is the mood of the population often reached the low
point. To retrieve the good mood, is increasing the use of pills and
Co., as underlined by recent data DAK. "In the" dark "period from
October to March last year were prescribed antidepressants more than
five percent in the spring and summer months from April to September,"
explained Dr. Stefanie Schellhammer, a pharmacist at the DAK. "In the
20 - to 30-year-olds, the increase is even more than seven percent."
Autumn and winter, people increasingly seem to beat the mind. For
2006, there were still within the year no such increase.
Also at DAK physician Dr. Waltraud minister in this period, more
patients with depressed mood in practice than in other months.
Nevertheless, she warns: "Not every feeling low is equal to an
autumn-winter depression. Antidepressants should be prescribed only in
exceptional cases, "Because. Only a few suffer from Seasonal Affective
Depression, which starts regularly in autumn and ends with the
lengthening days of spring. Experts estimate that one percent of the
population is affected. Contrast, affects about 20 percent these days
often a bad mood .*, Dr. "probably blame the lack of daylight is"
pastor. "For the sunlight affects certain neurotransmitters in the
brain. Due to the low supply of light, the body produces more of the
"sleep hormone" melatonin. The effect: You feel tired and sleepy. At
the same time decreases the production of the "happiness hormone"
serotonin.
From a self-treatment with hypericum preparations or solarium visits
a doctor does not recommend the DAK. The short summer trip to the
tanning bed is not much use, since only visible light that is absorbed
through the eye lifts the mood, but not the invisible ultraviolet
rays. The simplest remedy for the sad mood: Get out and move to fresh
air as much as possible outdoors - even on gray days. For the dim
autumn light is still stronger than the electric lighting.
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