WHBF | Getting Over the Winter Blues
Local 4 This Morning hosted Rich Whitaker, CEO of the Vera French Mental Health Center in Davenport, on Thursday, Feb. 3. He spoke about seasonal affective disorder (commonly known as “winter blues”) and how to overcome it.
Whitaker told us that sunlight is key to our mental health. When days are shorter during winter months, thus there is less opportunity for sunlight. Our natural body clock gets out of synch when days are shorter and daylight savings doesn’t help. Being sad is almost our default mood during winter months.