THE SEASONAL DISORDER: WHY THIS MEDICAL GEOLOGY PHENOMENON HAPPENS MORESO OR LESS SO BASED ON THE CORRESPONDING NORTHERN/SOUTHERN LATITUDE AND ITS RESPECTIVE SEASONAL TIME OF YEAR ON EARTH AT THAT PARTICULAR GIVEN TIME (BASED ON 32 YEARS OF PATIENT CASE STUDY RESULTS REPORTED TO THE DISCOVERER OF THIS ILLNESS)

There may be an explanation as to why some of the people attending the GSA conference in Colorado the last week in October could possibly be feeling possibly tired, sluggish, sleepy, cold hands (Raynauds Phenomenon), dysphoria, impaired concentration, sugar cravings, and weight gain. These are all symptoms of the fall/winter portion of the Seasonal Disorder.

Seasonal Affective Disorder is synonmous with the phrase seasonal energy syndrome. SAD is a medical disorder resulting from the changes in the wavelengths of light approaching the surface of the earth. An estimated 25 percent of the population exhibits symptoms of this disorder, with more higher prevalences occurring at earth's higher degreed latitude locations; or the further north/south you head closer towards either one of the poles,in theory, the disorder's symptoms will eventually get worse.

What changes the light as it comes down to the earths surface is based on how the earth actually receives the wavelengths of light, as well as its axis rotation, with respect to the earth's overall variable seasonal latitudinal changes annually. (except inside the tropics-where light's wavelengths remain much moreso a constant all year long)

Of the two directly opposite-phased occurrences of the seasonal disorder, clearly by far the more dangerous of the two phases is the spring summer phase-when a person exhibits the symptoms whereby the symptoms associated with S/S include insomnia, hyperphoria, episodic dyscontrol, psychosis, loss of sugar craving, and weight loss. Some of the corresponding illnesses frequently associated with the Seasonal Disorder are attention-deficit-disorder (ADD), temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and severe migraine headaches.

The manipulation of natural light with rose colored glasses during the fall/winter phase period and blue-green polarized glasses during the spring/summer phase period has been determined to be more effective than any other treatment modality including artificial light manipultion. It is proposed that the Seasonal Disorder is intimately related to the anabolism of melatonin and that this anabolism is inhibited by red light and permitted by the opponent blue-green light.

We can defend ourselves from SAD's symptoms, and alleviate virtually all the symptoms we feel which the seasonal disorder does exhibit. All these defenses will be discussed as the lecture progresses.