Mayo Clinic: Seasonal Affective Disorder

A great resource for information about SAD. Read about the symptoms, what causes SAD, how it was discovered that light is the key, and the role that melatonin plays in SAD. Also given are some tips for avoiding the "winter blues".

This article provides great information on Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. The topics that are covered in this article include: what is seasonal affective disorder, How common is SAD, and is there a treatment for SAD.

This site describes three types of treatment for this disorder. These treatments are light therapy, anti-depressant drugs and psycho therapy.

Extensive mental health information dealing with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), covering topics such as symptoms, causes, and treatments.

Otherwise known as "imagined ugliness," body-dysmorphic disorder involves how you think about your appearance. Site contains information on symptoms, causes, risk factors, complications, diagnosis, and lifestyle and home remedies.

Unhealthy escapes from reality occur usually to help keep difficult memories at bay. The Mayo Clinic lists the different dissociative disorders and provides symptoms, causes, risk factors, complications, tests and diagnosis, as well as...

This site give information on SAD, effects it has on people, and what causes it.

This Mayo Clinic site explores what alcoholism is, what it does to the body, and how it can be treated. Content includes information on seeking medical advice, coping skills, and more.

Learn about the disease diabetes and how it affects blood sugar in affected people, in this Mayo Clinic animated video. [2:10]

Learn about how asthma affects the lungs in this informational video animation from the Mayo Clinic. [0:25]