, with its morale-withering symptoms of despair, libido loss, lethargy and weight gain striking Britain with a vengeance.Some 3 per cent of us show severe symptoms, says the Royal College of Psychiatrists, while countless more slog through with sub-clinical forms of the winter blues. A Met Office survey last month found that more than 40 per cent of us complain that winter weather harms our mental health.So how can we best cope? The good news, say experts, is that there are plenty of ways in which){kind=link}
The season of gloom is looming. On Sunday the clocks went back, meaning shorter days and temperatures soon to plummet. For hundreds of thousands of Britons, this will usher in the debilitating fog of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), with its morale-withering symptoms of despair, libido loss, lethargy and weight gain striking Britain with a vengeance.
Some 3 per cent of us show severe symptoms, says the Royal College of Psychiatrists, while countless more slog through with sub-clinical forms of the winter blues. A Met Office survey last month found that more than 40 per cent of us complain that winter weather harms our mental health.
So how can we best cope? The good news, say experts, is that there are plenty of ways in which
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