Is Monsoon Making Me Sad?
Do you notice the weather making you feel low? Understand the link between the ongoing season and your moods.
Who can take this quiz?
Anyone who feels that the monsoon season might be impacting their daily life more than usual and is interested in understanding the weather is making them feel.
What purpose does this quiz serve?
This quiz is designed to help individuals recognize whether their symptoms align with those typically associated seasonal mood changes.
How does the quiz work?
By answering questions related to their experiences with the monsoon season, participants can gauge the impact of it on their general mood throughout the months of monsoon.
General Frequently Asked Questions
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a low in daily mood that often occurs during dull seasons like winter. It is theorised that reduced sunlight during the season causes a chemical change in the brain which leads to low moods.
Monsoon is typical of cloudy skies and reduced sunlight which results in reduced production of the neurotransmitter serotonin that is responsible for regulating happiness and well-being. Hence the monsoon season results in low moods.
Monsoon or weather related sadness is limited to the times of that particular weather. Whereas clinical depression is not limited to season or weather but to certain events and triggers. The duration of clinical depression is longer than that of monsoon related sadness. Also, weather related sadness is resolved on the occurrence of a positive, happy event.
Staying physically active during the monsoon releases endorphins in the brain and uplifts the mood. Grabbing onto any sunlight exposure for vitamin D improves the mood.
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