02-22-2016, 12:44 PM
(02-22-2016, 10:50 AM)Ferrealls_imp Wrote:(02-22-2016, 08:36 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Yuk. Must be very depressing.
It is. I'm not sure if you guys hear it much down your way, but up here everyone knows what Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is. It's a fancy medical term for the depression that comes along with dark winters like ours.
Then again, I get 21 hours of daylight around summer solstice. So they balance..very slowly.
It is. I'm not sure if you guys hear it much down your way, but up here everyone knows what Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is. It's a fancy medical term for the depression that comes along with dark winters like ours.
Then again, I get 21 hours of daylight around summer solstice. So they balance..very slowly.
No. Tasmania, our southernmost state is not as near the pole as Alaska and probably gets at least 8 hours of daylight in winter. In summer it's nearer 16, so there's a bit of variety. SAD is an issue there, but I suspect not quite so bad. I lived there for a long time (and love it) but I found the increasing perma-grey that Ferret talks about more and more difficult and moved north. I now grumble (sometimes) about the heat proving that no-one is ever completely happy with the weather.