Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!homxa!hok382 From: hok382@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: spring fever Message-ID: <149@homxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 14:53:34 EST Article-I.D.: homxa.149 Posted: Tue Mar 20 14:53:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:46:01 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 17 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"