Homeopathy for Seasonal Affective Disorder

Light - especially sunlight - is a powerful life-giving source of energy and it's critical to our sense of well being. For many, reduced hours of daylight trigger Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The exact reasons for SAD aren’t fully known, but it’s clear there is a link between hours of daylight and mental health. Read on for a few tips to improve winter time mental health and some homeopathic remedies that support winter blues.

Lifestyle tips

Here are some lifestyle tips that can help improve mental health during the winter.

• Maximize outside time in winter sunshine (and even on cloudy days) - sit by a window or go for a walk. Fresh air is best - put on a hat and get outside! Forest bathing is a great natural serotonin booster!

• Do gentle exercise every day. Stimulating blood flow, lymph, and endorphins, exercise has a natural positive impact on mental health.

• Eat more veggies and minimize sugar and alcohol. Reducing blood sugar swings and getting necessary vitamins and minerals makes a body feel better mentally, physically and emotionally.

• Get good sleep. It helps everything.

And consider some homeopathic support!

Homeopathic Remedies

These are a few well known remedies that can help seasonal depression.

Ammonium carbonicum - for seasonal depression with a feeling of physical depletion, including a sense of oppression in the chest.

Natrum muriaticum - for SAD symptoms that are characterized by joylessness, irritability, a tendency to get easily offended, and find it difficult to cry.

Aurum metallicum - for feelings of hopelessness; this is a deep depression that can be accommodated by a deep self-hatred or worthlessness.

Phosphorus - for feeling as though mood is deeply affected by cloudy weather, as though feelings directly correspond. A person that will benefit from Sepia may be sensitive to and even afraid of the dark at night as well.

Sepia - best known for a sense of hormonal stagnation, this remedy suits people that feel chilly and have a loathing of all things wet and cold and winter. A person that will benefit from Sepia will feel better with vigorous exercise.

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