Having suffered from SAD for the past 10 years, when winter starts to roll around and the days start to shorten, I can't help but begin to start to look for the depression/symptoms within myself. My question is, do you think that by expecting to begin to feel SAD, it could almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy type of thing? I mean, could I in any way be finding the symptoms because I expect them to surface in winter? I have pondered this but don't know how to unravel the mind-body complexities possibly at play here. Any thoughts?
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Having suffered from SAD for the past 10 years, when winter starts to roll around and the days start to shorten, I can't help but begin to start to look for the depression/symptoms within myself. My question is, do you think that by expecting to begin to feel SAD, it could almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy type of thing? I mean, could I in any way be finding the symptoms because I expect them to surface in winter? I have pondered this but don't know how to unravel the mind-body complexities possibly at play here. Any thoughts?
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