You guys have to check out my NPR interview!!

[Saskia Smith]

Well, Summer SAD has finally gone national! On the radio!

http://seasonalsad.com/?p=125

[Vicki Giangrasso]

good job....

 

Ironically I sit in the house waiting for the big bright sun to go down so I can take my very patient dog out for a walk and run some errands- 1 more hour on the east coast, but I am obsessed with the weather channel and dread the next couple days... not a puffy cloud in the sky till tuesday

 

My story goes back to years ago. I grew up on the jersey shore and we always had a pool growing up- once I was on my own raising my son I used to always tell people when they would talk about having cabin fever that I have

summer fever and then they gave it a name - SAD - this was many many years ago. I have told many people over the years that my worst months are june, july, and aug .  Just over the past couple of years I have been hearing more and seeing articles and my doctors actually saying they read something about summer sad, and I say, see, told you, i'm not crazy, i'm just miserable, uncomfortable and I need a pool- I'm like a fish out of water and like I was when I was a kid, in the pool from dusk until dawn I won't be content until I can get relief, and the AC annoys me- I do take cool showers and keep a quiet fan on me but man, the next few months are sterssing me out.

Antidepressents are not my answer, although they are making links to allergies being some causes, perhaps, being the AC does bother me and I do have environmental allergies, but I also have late stage lyme, mis-diagnosed for many years until last august,  which does affect the immune system, but I also don't think it is the entire answer being I have been like this most of my life.

Anyway, thanks for sharing , you did a great job and made your point,and mine, and now the sun is down enough for me to get something done outside, get some sleep and take advantage of the early morning before the sun takes me down tomorrow....erggghhh- think rain , think rain , think rain

 

:)

 

Vicki