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There are plenty of Christmas carols, and they're fine, but the winter months are about more than

just Christmas, you know.

They're also about gray skies and bitter cold. They're about shorter amounts of daylight,

especially for those who live in the more northern parts of the United States, or the all over

everywhere parts of Canada. Or hell, Scandinavia. Hello, Scandinavian listeners. I think we need carols

specifically for seasonal effective disorder, or sad. Or as the condition is now known in some

circles, major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern, the mental health phenomenon

where the season kicks you into a depression.

It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Yeah, let's talk about sad carols, as in SAD, seasonal effective disorder carols. Like, I don't know, what

could we come up with? God rest all day long, ye not so married gentleman?

Hmm. On we to the world? Silent night, except for all my heavy sighing. Oh, constant night?

Jingle hells? Okay, yeah, I'm not sure those will catch on.

Maybe, though, I don't know. In any case, let's take a look at seasonal effective disorder

or major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern this week, so we can understand what we're

up against, what it is, how it works, what you can do

about it, why it isn't just a winter thing, and generally how to navigate through the whole deal.

We'll leave the singing out. For now. Dr. Ken Duckworth is the chief medical officer for the

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