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Don’t be SAD during the dark months
Every winter between September and April seven per cent of the 7 YEAR
population of the UK is seriously affected by SAD (seasonal affective GUARANTEE
disorder) to the extent that it prevents them from functioning normally,
writes Elaine Watt. on Worcester
It is estimated that a further which contains bright light tubes Bosch boilers,
seventeen per cent suffer milder under a screen. You sit about half available until
symptoms that none the less cause a metre away from it for 10 to 20
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Most of us feel more cheerful and normal activities, such as reading, 2011
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fresh air walking, smiling and be- also help uncover other factors that 503349
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SAD can strike at any age but is feel and enable you to do something
most common between 18 and 30. about them.
It is thought that twice as many To help ease the symptoms: Grange EST 1989
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