🔬A Biomedical Researcher’s View On Seasonal Depression

Depression sucks. But it shouldn’t always require antidepressants, either.

Good Morning, High Performers.

Seasons change, moods change.

It gets hard to get out and do the things you used to do in the summer.

I’m no psychiatrist, but I know this is because our brain circuitry responds very sharply to the seasons.

The decrease in sunlight exposure from the summer to autumn and autumn to winter leads to seasonal affective disorder, w…