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From: hok382@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: spring fever
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 14:53:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 14:53:34 1984
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I think I just get back to more or less normal in the spring, but
used to be pretty thoroughly depressed in Feb. (until I noticed the
same comments every year in my journal in Feb. and sort of learned
to work around the gloominess...).  Anyhow, there was an article
on depression in Atlantic last year that briefly touched on the
fact that some people (especially of N. European extraction) get
depressed in winter, eat lots of starch, and lose interest in sex.
It's tied up with sunlight in the eyes apparently, because exposure
to artifical light with same characteristics as sun seems to pretty
much cure it.  (Makes sense because you save energy when you need
it and tends to make you have kids in late spring and early summer
when they have best chance to survive (My father's mother had one
out of eight kid not born in this time range, so maybe something
to it)).  On the other hand, either because of the bare chests
and skimpy shorts or because of my natural bio-chemical rhythms,
I find August is the time I have the emotions usually associated
with "spring fever"