{"id":24940,"date":"2025-09-22T09:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=24940"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:59:30","slug":"how-do-i-distinguish-depression-from-seasonal-affective-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/how-do-i-distinguish-depression-from-seasonal-affective-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Distinguish Depression From Seasonal Affective Disorder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sticky_post\">\n<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/distinguish-depression-seasonal\/seasonal-affective-disorder\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10699\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10699\" title=\"seasonal affective disorder winter blues depression\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101211093455im_\/http:\/\/www.natural-holistic-health.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/seasonal-affective-disorder--300x193.jpg\" alt=\"How do I distinguish depression from Seasonal Affective Disorder?\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>I was diagnosed with what my doctor said was \u2018<a href=\"\/recommends\/SADSoothe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seasonal affective disorder<\/a>\u2018 approximately 4 years ago, I was on\u00a0<a href=\"\/recommends\/MindSoothe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">anti-depressant<\/a>\u00a0medication briefly until my mom (I was a minor at the time) decided I didn\u2019t need it anymore. The symptoms have continued ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be in a constant state of decline regarding my mood \u2013 how do I determine whether it is really S.A.D. and not just regular depression? It doesn\u2019t seem to occur at particular times of year, and I\u2019m not sure if an overcast day affects it or not, I live in a rainy city so it\u2019s overcast a lot. 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The symptoms have continued ever since. I seem to be in a constant state of decline regarding my mood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety-and-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}