Going ‘green’

IN the 1980s, the world was introduced to the first diagnoses of what would become known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a major depressive disorder subset in which people who normally have no mental health issues become depressed during certain seasons, most commonly in the winter. In less formal terms, seasons where the weather is such that the sun is more or less blocked out and people who have to stay indoors more are usually the ones where SAD manifests itself. So, in general, SAD usually begins in the fall and continues throughout winter. When it is sunny outside, in the spring and in the summer, there is no SAD. To put it simply, the more people are exposed to the sun and the…