The Neurotransmitters of Seasonal Affective Disorder and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The brain is a very complicated organ that rules over our lives engendering how we move, think, and feel. The way our brain cells (neurons) communicate with one another is by the use of chemicals known as neurotransmitters which they pass from one to the other. We have briefly...
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Its Interaction with Complex Trauma
In the last article in this series of four posts written for the CPTSD Foundation on seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and complex trauma, we examined together with the definitions and each of their symptoms. As a short recap, seasonal affective disorder is a form of major depression that affects...
My Experience with SAD
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD for short, is a form of major depression that I have experienced all my life. My suffering usually begins around late October and ends in early May. All the time between I feel sluggish, tired, out of sorts, down, and very much unlike myself....
Seasonal Affective Disorder, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Relational Trauma
I wrote this article for another site, CPTSD Foundation, that focuses primarily on CPTSD, but I thought it appropriate to share it here on my site as well. We who have dissociative identity disorder often also suffer from seasonal affective disorder as a result of the complex relational trauma...