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        <title>Seasonal Affective Disorder</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[What's Going Around: Seasonal affective disorder]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/kspr-whats-going-around-seasonal-affective-disorder-20130131,0,5800373.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-01-31 07:29:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The lack of exposure to sunlight in the winter months can not only affect our moods, but can also lead to a disorder. 

It's called Seasonal Affective Disorder, better known as SAD. 

And doctors say it can be serious. 

"Because of the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic Medical Edge: Persistent, pervasive symptoms of depression during wintertime could be SAD]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-05 02:30:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've been diagnosed with clinical depression. I'm taking duloxetine (Cymbalta), which helps. But I always feel more blue and have a hard time finding the energy to do my normal activities when fall and winter come. My neurologist...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Jackson under treatment for mood disorder, staff says]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/chi-leading-house-democrat-calls-on-rep-jackson-to-disclose-illness-20120711,0,1925081.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-07-11 20:30:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Under increasing pressure from top Democrats to disclose what's kept Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. off the job for more than a month, the congressman's office issued a statement Wednesday saying he is being treated for a "mood disorder" at an inpatient center....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Seasonal Affective Disorder]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-01-25 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes the dark dreary skies of the season turn our positive outlook into mush.  We call that the &ldquo;winter blues."  And sometimes, when that dismal outlook on life doesn&rsquo;t go away, it&rsquo;s a more serious ailment known as Season...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mental illness redefined]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-12 10:44:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When psychiatrists diagnose mental illness, they turn to an unwieldy book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short.

First published in 1952, the tome also is used as a standard by researchers, the health...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County health briefs]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bs-ar-health-briefs-0506-20120504,0,2638482.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-05-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Blood drive 

An American Red Cross blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 18 at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 301 Hospital Drive, Glen Burnie. Call 1-800-RED-CROSS or BWMC's marketing and communications department 410-787-4367....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County health briefs]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-01-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Free cookbook 

The Learn to Live program of the Department of Health has a new healthful eating kit that features a free cookbook and tips that will help you select foods high in fiber and low in fat and sodium. Recipes are also quick, easy and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tips to combat the midwinter blues]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-24 10:02:23</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This has been a mild winter, but Somerset County has still seen a lot of gray days.

In winter this region averages about 28 days a month that have more than 50 percent cloud cover. Those dark, dreary days can provoke seasonal affective disorder (SAD), an...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to prevent the Valentine's Day blues]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-14 06:31:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Confession: I hate Valentine&rsquo;s Day.

But I bet I&rsquo;m not alone.

For the first 26 years of my life I dreaded Valentine&rsquo;s Day. Every February 14 served as a reminder that no one wanted to date me.

I couldn&rsquo;t stand going to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The power of light]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/bs-exho-the-power-of-light-20120125,0,2501889.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-25 18:33:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It doesn&rsquo;t look like much -- Janet Althen places what looks like a small flashlight with an inverted colored bulb on certain points of the body, holding it there for about 30 seconds -- but for Althen&rsquo;s patients, as well as a growing number of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Seasonal Affective Disorder: When it's more than the winter blahs]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/hm-seasonal-affective-disorder-when-its-more-than-the-winter-blahs-20111222,0,2712663.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-12-22 11:46:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[He thought it was the doldrums. But it seemed to happen every fall, when the quick summer of sunlight was replaced with the slow-motion months of boring gray.

The landscape was brown, the trees were bare and darkness appeared early.

Some people...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Tis the Season: Seasonal Affective Disorder]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-12-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For most people it's just another gloomy north Texas day--but for Teresa Miller those grey skies can make her blue

"Sad, depressed, feeling of crying, loss of interest in doing activities,&rdquo; Teresa explained. &ldquo;Pretty much you just don't want...]]></description>
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