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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Today I want to talk about seasonal

effective disorder and how real this is in how you might be being affected and

it might also be affecting your anxiety panic levels so So let's get into that.

Seasonal effective disorder can be also classified as a form of depression

that comes up only during the winter months or the shorter days of the year and you can also

feel it at a lesser level.

Those of us who have had anxiety panic or suffering

with that now are very sensitive to many of the changes that happen in our lives and

are being affected by the amount of light that we have

available to us is very real and we can feel it very deeply.

Typically people go into this ramping up in the fall and the winter months and it

eases up in the spring and they feel good in the summer.

And it's quite common for people to notice the changes in their mood,

in their energy levels.

You know, we just did a conversation, a podcast about anxiety and exhaustion.

And so this seasonal effective disorder

may be playing a part in that also.

It can also affect your craving for different foods.

And as the weather gets colder, where this is happening,

if the further away you are from the equator, the more affected you are, possibly with the change in the seasons.

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