{"id":3087,"date":"2020-04-28T18:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cliniqueleblancsavaria.ca\/seasonal-depression\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:05:34","slug":"seasonal-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cliniqueleblancsavaria.ca\/en\/seasonal-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"cdm-block-group\"><div class=\"content\">\n<h1><strong>Cure the November blues<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t let depression, fatigue and cravings get the better of you!<\/h2>\n<p>Every autumn, you feel your spirits drop along with the temperature and the leaves. It&#8217;s hard to get out of bed in the mornings, and during the day, you have sugar cravings. Recognize yourself? Then you&#8217;re probably suffering from seasonal depression, also known as winter blues or seasonal affective disorder (SAD).   <\/p>\n<h2>Let&#8217;s shed some light on this type of depression<\/h2>\n<p>Affecting women more often (in 75% of cases), SAD is mainly caused by insufficient exposure to daylight. The lack of sunlight reduces the amount of light entering the eye. As a result, neurotransmitter levels are disturbed, leading to an imbalance in hormones such as serotonin (the &#8220;happy hormone&#8221;), melatonin (responsible for wakefulness and sleep cycles) and dopamine (essential for normal brain activity).  <\/p>\n<p>If you are affected by SAD or think you may be, the LeBlanc+Savaria clinic invites you to consult your physician, who may recommend or prescribe :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>daily <strong>light therapy<\/strong> sessions lasting 30 minutes, during which you are exposed to artificial light providing 10,000 lux.<\/li>\n<li>a <strong>vitamin D<\/strong> supplement to play a regulatory role, since it acts directly on neurotransmitters. Artificial light from light therapy does not produce vitamin D. <\/li>\n<li>move around, get outdoors,<strong>exercise<\/strong>, to expose yourself to as much daylight as possible, but also to increase natural serotonin production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taking antidepressants can help reduce the symptoms of SAD, if they are severe and interfere with your daily life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seasonal depression - LeBlanc + Savaria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cliniqueleblancsavaria.ca\/en\/seasonal-depression\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seasonal depression - 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