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- - - - - - - I. - -- - - r .r..9wI~1~1a at..........a,. - OronoWceklTimes:: Wednesclay, Mardi 4, 1998 - I ARTHUR BLACK Spring is here! Almost... Now is the winter of our discontent... William Shakespeare Shakespeare was, as usual, both bang on the money and ahead of his time. Here's a medieval playwright scribbling to a deadline by the light of a candle and he manages to encapsulate in one pithy phrase a malady that wasn't even diag- nosed until 500 years after his death. We've just come through most of another Canadian win- ter and I know in my frozen bones that Shakespeare was really writing about SAD. Its full name is Seasonal Affective Disorder and for my money, you can forget tingly ears and frozen toes, dead car batteries and driveways full of snow -- SAD is the real down- side of the Canadian winter. How do you know if you're SAD afflicted? It doesn't take a CAT scan. It's not hard to tell. With SAD, you'll tend to oversleep, by as much as four hours a day. You'll feel listless and bone lazy. Nothing will seem to be worth the effort. You will probably find it nearly impossible to concentrate. And you'll find yourself craving massive amounts of starchy foods. What's more, you'1l go through this depressing ritual year after dreary year, starting in late fall and getting worse as winter wears on. By spring, the symptoms lighten up and eventually disappear -- usually in time for barbecue season. Experts don't know a whole lot about SAD but they're rea- sonably certain that it is trig- gered by sunshine -- or rather the lack of it. They are also pretty well agreed that its resi- dents of the northern latitudes that are most affected. People in Hawaii don't suffer from SAD. People in Tuktoyaktuk do. And most Canadians expe- rience weather patterns closer to those of the Arctic than to those of the Hawaiian Islands. Unfortunately. The doctors say only about two to three percent of Canadians seriously suffer from SAD, but they admit that another ten percent of us 'expe- rience significant seasonal dif- ficulties'. Personally, I'd put the number much higher than that. As a matter of fact, I don't know anybody in this country who doesn't find the short, dingy days of our winters to be a drag. Where do you go in Canada to escape the SADness? Forget Vancouver and Victoria. Sure, their winters are milder, but they're a lot grayer too. From November tbrougb February, INTERACTIVE HEALTH Vancouverites get only 258 hours of bright sunshine if they're lucky. Torontonians on the other hand, can expect to receive 363 hours. Of course, they also have to put up with hosting the Leafs and the Blue Jays. If you really want to get the maximum amount of winter solar rays without using a pass- port, pack up your ear muffs and move to Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg or pretty well any place on the prairies. Calgarians get to bask in 452 hours of bright winter sunshine -- nearly twice the Vancouver allotment. What can you do to combat SAD -- aside from hiring a Hertz Rent-A-Rowboat and sculling to Hawaii? The doc- tors are pretty fuzzy on this aspect too. They think the chemical serotonin plays an important part, although they're not sure precisely how. Tests indicate that patients suffering severe cases of SAD invariably show abnormally low levels of serotonin in their systems. Another thing that seems to help some patients is a 'light box'. It's basically an electrical unit that emits ultraviolet-fil- tered, full-spectrum light into the eyes of patients. Doctors are guessing that this artificial light source, when directed at the patient, imitates the natural light that is missing from our winter days. As for other possible defenses against this most Canadian of maladies, it turns out that, when all is said and done, your doctor's guess is about as good as your Aunt Sadie's chicken soup. Get eight hours of sleep a night, they say. Be sure to exercise lots, they say. Cut back on all those starchy, sweet treats, they say. Take up a hobby. Adopt a pet. Enroll in night school. Oh yeah -- and think posi- tively. That may, in fact, turn out to be the best medical advice a SAD sufferer can receive. The truth is, what really knocks the stuffing out of Seasonal Affective Disorder is a simple, fail-safe phenomenon we call the end of winter. Which, my calendar tells me, isn't too far off at all. Shakespeare didn't say this, but he should have: Spring is just around the corner. 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