EXHIBITIONIST MASCARA FROM COVERGIRL
FROM COVERGIRL >> Everyone gained an extra
hour of sleep overnight daylight saving time went into
effect at 02:00AM
setting our clocks back one
hour and a while some of us may
have enjoyed that extra rest.
Others may wake up feeling a
little off research shows that
time change can impact people’s
mental health. It’s linked to seasonal depression or seasonal affective disorder which
affects one 0.6 billion people
around the globe and here to
talk more about that is doctor
Francesca larosa is with us
help and we were
just talking about the reason
because I was thinking hey fall
back it’s great but we do lose
that sunlight
right and so you know its
vitamin D is known as the
sunshine vitamin I’m so lack of
exposure to sunlight sometimes
can.
>> Result in your circadian
rhythm being thrown off and
particularly it means you want
to maybe sleep more.
Your appetite might increase
and your mood could be impacted
from lack of sleep. Sometimes
people call this or I’ve heard
of this the
winter Blues, absolutely yeah
and so the seasonal affective
disorder is the clinical
version of
winter blues. And so a lot of
times if you’re experiencing
those symptoms you might want
to seek out a practitioner to
see if that’s winter Blues are
fit something a little bit more
serious or are the symptoms
like what should you be looking
out yeah the same as major
depressive disorder symptoms
that would be feeling More
fatigued lack of energy
you may not want to do the same
things you’re used to doing so
lack of in the activities he
once found pleasurable
as I said changes in appetite
so being actually more hungry
seeking carbohydrates actually
his home
all And so you know
just feeling fatigue is the Big
One and then also in more
extreme cases even some
suicidal thoughts
and behavior. Well they do say,
I mean the holidays are tough
for people of money have the
time change it to holder you
maybe don’t to go outside it
just becomes difficult for
people.
>> What should you do if you
are experiencing these symptoms
and you know there’s something
wrong. So if you really feel
like your ability to engage in
you know your everyday
activities are impaired I would
recommend you seek out a
professional so that could be a
mental health practitioner that
could be.
>> Your primary Doctor
but they would do a full mental
health evaluation see if it’s
reaching the clinical level and
then they could recommend one
of
2 treatments. Therapy,
particularly research indicates
cognitive behavioral therapy is
shown to really help with
seasonal affective disorder.
And light therapy which is
in the morning time you might
buy a light box for 30 to 45
minutes to get some of that
light exposure to counteract
some of those symptoms so how
do you help with sleep help
right now to what are some tips
for that right so in my field sleep hygiene is very physical and mental health are
very interwoven, so you would
want to engage in some sleep
hygiene practices that could
mean you want to set a specific
that time. And every night you follow that so get a routine going you also want to set the
stage for sleep
make it a very restful a you
know relaxing location don’t
have your TV.
Because exposure to that light
is sending signals to the brain
that are going against what you
want to do which is sleep rival
how can some people falsely put
the
TV on.
>> You Yeah, it is an
interesting
conundrum but Noah you do want
to not be around any screens
because it just will not allow
you to get into that wrestle
state of sleep.
>> You can even listen to
music before take a nice hot
bath these are some of the
sleep hygiene practices that
you really want to
to 10 and obviously obviously
for losing the light on the
back and we’re kind of gaining
in the morning, I’m the
lightest sleep or that you
probably have me so when
the light shines through the
window, yeah I
am up. So are there things that
we should be doing the kind of
combat that side of love that
absolutely so the other pieces
of sleep hygiene you could have
the blackout curtains and also
the little masks, you know.
Those are just absolutely so
very practical things you can
do to even you know for them
basically
just stop that’s from happening
and Hutch early that’s a
wonderful
thing about even though it’s a
tough diagnosis to deal with
and it happens you know at a
regular time every year we know
that it might happen right so
being preventative about it
seeking help early and engaging
in some of these activities
before could really be useful.
Last question I want to ask you
is how do we prepare now for
spring forward in March because
we realize that is also very jarring to our rights are way to Lake slowly get into that
yeah, I mean you could
absolutely just act as if it is
already maybe I’m in a week
prior just to set the stage and
get your circadian rhythm
on the right track to match
what it would be when spring
forward occurs. It takes about
you know one to 2 days, I would
say in general,
but if your ix experiencing
sleep disturbance for beyond
the months it could be a more
clinical level of asleep
disorder which would want to