Coping With Wintertime Blahs - Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds

Coping With the Wintertime Blahs (SAD) – Shrinking It Down

By Steven Schlozman, MD and Gene Beresin, Executive Director

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It’s cold. It’s gray. It’s dark. This time of year, a lot of folks feel pretty blah. And not just those with depression or other mental health disorders. It can affect anyone. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing. But if you don’t like the way it makes you feel, there are real things you can do about it.

In this episode of Shrinking It Down, Gene and Steve talk about the signs and symptoms of SAD, and ways to help you and your family cope.

Have a question about SAD that we didn’t cover? Write to us!

Media List

Baby, It’s Gray Outside: Coping With Seasonal Affective Disorder (MGH Clay Center)
Spring Suicide: An (Un)Likely Combination? (MGH Clay Center)
Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole (Mountain Apple Company Inc.)
Resources – American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Episode edited by Sara Rattigan

Music by Gene Beresin

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Steven Schlozman, MD

Steven Schlozman, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), course director of the psychopathology class for the MIT-HMS Program in Health, Sciences and Technology, and former co-director of the Clay Center for Youn...

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Gene Beresin, Executive Director

Gene Beresin, MD, MA is executive director of The MGH Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, and a staff child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also...

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