When summer ends and persons', majority autumn comes it surrounds sadness. Days are more and more shorter and cooler, it is the less and less sun, more rain and fog. Sunny light regulates man's biological clock so to say. Day permits to distinguish from night, organism knows it when was one should rest, and when to increase one's activity. Sunny light, his intensity, regulates of life not only 24 hour rhythm, but and year - old. Autumn the intensity of light is lower than summer. Yet lower it is in cloudy winter days. When it is light to function za little faultly hormonal arrangement can at susceptible persons biological clock can undergo "disregulate”.
the Causes of seasonal depression are not to end well-known. It is careful, that the most important with them it is the insufficient quantity of sunny light reaching to retina of eye, or the reduced sensibility of retina on light. Light in eye becomes exchanged on nervous impulse, which runs further to different structures mózgowia, on which oddziaływuje. The nervous reaching to pineal gland impulses and the hypothalami stimulate the quantity the paid out hormones, in dependence from "quantity” of light. These paid out substances, different activity neuroprzekaźników, they can influence on man's mood.
Depression steps out with reason of shortage of sunny light probably not only, but influence on her pronouncement has man's osobnicza sensibility also. She joins surely with distinctness - at some persons - the of biorhythms related okołorocznych also with changes of przekaźnictwa the serotoninergicznego and the noradrenergicznego. Influence gets examined also at present melatoniny on seasonal depression – what they to her part of scholars' sentence be divided.
seasonal Depression, called differently seasonal disorder afektywnym (SAD, seasonal affective disorder), really it on beginning of years eightieth was recognise was for disease officially. Disease characterizes depressive disorders with late autumn and winter as well as remission (that is retreat symptoms) on spring or summer. Autumn, and the more winter, many persons lose every inventiveness. Men become depressed and irritated. It is such persons more and more. Spring together with from arrival sunny and warm days, the radical change of mood follows. Summer all affections disappear. SAD has nawrotowy character often, that is it repeats oneself from arrival autumn every year or winter.
tzw. meets also Seldom summer depression. Scientific report tell about her individual, and observations come from the most often from neighbourhoods okołorównikowych. In this so study by seasonal depression (seasonal disorder afektywne, SAD) it will will understand depression connected with late autumn and winter, this is as figure the most often (if it is not exclusively) stepping out in Poland, Europe as well as in USA.
the SAD steps out more often at men of młodych, it comes out in period among 20 typically and 30 year of life. Women more often are ill. Intensification disease enlarges with age and it becomes more gentle in old age probably. It more this type of depression was has written down was in regions of shortage of sunny light (np. Alaska). It in Poland about 10 percentage of society feels less even or the more intensified symptoms of seasonal depression.
was one should distinguish from clinical depression seasonal Depression, connected with emotional disorders on deeper psychical level. Appearing her is the main feature of seasonal depression, usually cyclically, autumn or winter and retreating spring or summer. Obviously, to settlement of type of depression indispensable the medical investigation is.
seasonal Depression causes at person who experiences her the feeling of sadness of depression and hopelessness. The symptoms this excessive sleepiness, large appetite, clear lack of energy, apathy, phobia, irritability, problems with concentration the, hesitation of mood, lack of justification to working, the loss of interests the, neutralization, the weakness of sexual impulse and at women intensification the symptoms of team of premenstrual tone.
From za serious illness recent seasonal depression be recognise, from recent she was tried to treat also. Doctors apply different methods: farmakoterapię, fototerapię as well as psychotherapy.
Treatment with seasonal depression patients depends on fototerapii at present mainly. We near help of fototerapii to cure ok. 70 the patients' percentage from SAD can. It is then the best tolerated by patients, without side results method. Workings be undesirable thin. They belong to them: the pains of head, dryness of śluzówek and the eyes. Caution be required near some eyes disese how degeneration colour retinas and at applying uwrażliwiać on working light medicines persons. You before fototerapią to say about taken medicines doctor should always.
the Fototerapia depends on irradiation the patient with fluorescent have emitted since 2500 the light about intensity to 10000 lux lamp (used in houses of lamp with candle with intensity about 300 - 500 lux, so the healing light has about many the larger intensity). The applied in fototerapii lamps usually emit about approximate to phantom of sunny light phantom the white light.
Fototerapia is the most effective, when it complies her two razy daily: morning and early evening (what the least on two hours before position oneself to bed). Interventions last from half hour till two hours, by several days. The symptoms of depression should retreat after less than week, seldom after three or four weeks. At persons who did not react on first period of fototerapii the improvement usually follows after adjustment the intensity of light, change the pores and the time of duration of irradiation or else the angle of incidence or the decrease of enlargement of from eyes distance to source of light relatively. Fototerapia in considerable degree softens symptoms SAD, be even causes total retreat disease. After use of fototerapii the patient's state should improve clearly: it arrives energy, sleepiness disappears, appetite gets smaller on sweetnesses, desire grows to life. At it treatment it does not bring with light effect unfortunately, it is ineffective.
Fototerapia should run under doctor's supervision. The possibility of purchase of lamp in Poland exists to fototerapii, and using with her in house, this facilitation is for patients. Lamp such has to have suitable certificates. It it was one should was know also, that irregularly led therapy can (near excessive irradiation) threaten with appearing the feeling of irritation and anxiety.
Effective joining from antidepressant medicines fototerapii can be.
To get pharmacological help was one should turn to doctor. The antidepressant medicines have to fight the symptoms of depression, to improve tune. Majority with them (in Poland) she be sold on prescription. Herb medicines, np. without prescription be sold preparations from St -John's - wort.
Next method healing psychotherapy is, that is influence word, treatment conversation. Curing with depression is the aim of psychotherapy not only, but inducing to different glance on life also. Psychotherapy can show, how advise me with depression. Decrease in period activity permits to accept jesienno - winter. Can turn to psychologist in aim of receipt of such help.
Near treatment the seasonal depression profitable the holiday departure can turn out in autumn months and winter in regions about large quantity of sunny light (np. the neighbourhoods the okołorównikowe).
movement With certainty on psychical shape will influence profitably and physical exercise the best on fresh air, which answer for maintenance in activity organism. Already even short walk, especially in sunny days, he should improve mood.
Important diet, particularly suitable content is tryptofanu. It is then exogenous amino acid (organism is not able only him to produce, it has to be delivered from outside). Tryptofan is precursor serotoniny. Serotonina however antidepressant working has, reassuring and relaxing. Considerable quantities tryptofanu (servant organism to production serotoniny) such dishes contain how: turkey, soya bean, salmon, bread, milk, groats manna, yellow cheese as well as bananas. They in the persons' diet with depressive disorders should oneself find from group the vitamin the B. Te of vitamin also the beer easts contain the liver, chicken, turkey of, egg, the cereals', full grain brans the wheat's, sprouts, the vegetable's, oat petals. Necessary foil contained acid is in such products also how parsley's, leavess lettuce, cabbage, beetroots, cucumbers, pea, bean, soya bean, lentils, oranges, whole-meal bread and liver. It it to different conditioning indispensable components of diet the correc functioning the nervous arrangement was one should was the magnesium also, which contained is in nuts, the soya bean, groats of, cocoa, the seeds, leguminous plants, poppy seed and the wholemeal bread.
Very important care with different men close relationships is, turning on in sociable activity, going out from house in spite unfavourable weather, as the most frequent doing thing, which give pleasure and they improve tune as well as avoidance events and stressing out situations. It is me alone well to treat with leniency and you should not throw on me many duties zbyt in this period.
seasonal Depression, connected with late autumn and winter it is frequent matter. If, keeping, intensifying worsening mood in relationship with this period of the year which approaches slowly will notice and disturbing everyday functioning, it can then to be seasonal disorder afektywne - seasonal depression. Near such suspicion one should to seek the help the doctor, which on basis of interview and the diagnosis will put the investigation and the treatment will propose the best in data of case safe.