This is episode 29 of Everyday Wellness How to Beat the Winter Blues.

I'm Dr. Kelly Donahue, clinical health psychologist,

here with my co-host Cynthia Thurlow, nurse practitioner, and functional nutritionist.

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Welcome to everyday wellness. Wellness is the result of the decisions that you make every

day. It's your mindset and the thoughts you believe. Wellness is the food you put in your

body and the relationship you have with yourself and others. Wellness is your work and meaning.

Join us on everyday wellness as we explore ways that you can choose wellness today. Hello everyone. In today's session we're going to talk about seasonal

effective disorder and or the winter blues. So this time of year, it's common

when many people feel a little sad,

a little under the weather, a little less motivated.

And it can be written off as just, is what happens or we can kind of quote unquote

diagnose it as seasonal effective disorder or we can just call it the winter blues.

So Cynthia and I are going to talk about the

definition, kind of the specifics required for the diagnosis of it. We're

going to talk a little bit about the contributing factors and then most importantly what we can do to

treat this.

So I think we can start by thinking about the diagnosis and I was actually surprised to hear what the

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