Don’t Get SAD Just Because Winter Is Coming

Planning ahead can prevent some symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, or the ‘winter blues’

Allie Volpe
Forge
Published in
4 min readNov 1, 2019

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II consider myself an optimist, but when I awoke to a blanket of darkness at 6:15 a.m. in October, my mind couldn’t avoid the inevitable: Winter is coming. This is only going to get worse. Evenings will get darker after daylight saving…

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Allie Volpe
Forge
Writer for

Writes about lifestyle, trends, and pop psychology for The Atlantic, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Washington Post, and more.