Winter Depression (SAD)

The days grow shorter, the light disappears — and with it, your energy. It begins gradually: you become more tired, even though you are sleeping more. You eat more, even though you are less hungry. Things that excited you in summer suddenly feel like an effort. Your drive sinks, your mood darkens, and at some point you notice that you would like nothing more than to withdraw — under a blanket, behind closed doors, far from the world.

Medicine calls it Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and explains it through light deficiency, excess melatonin, and a serotonin deficit. That is true — on the biochemical level. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: Why do you react so sensitively to the darkness, while others experience winter as a perfectly ordinary season? What is happening inside you that the withdrawal of outer light throws you so completely off balance?