Fight Winter Seasonal Depression with Exercise

You can fight winter seasonal depression with exercise. I'm not a doctor or a mental health professional so do not take what I have to say as an absolute cure to your winter seasonal depression. I am a personal trainer with a lot of experience with exercise and the mood enhancing benefits that can be used to battle winter seasonal depression. Try my advice as a home remedy for your winter seasonal depression. As a personal trainer I take inactive people and get them to be active using a solid exercise program. While most of my clients' goals are based on physical appearance a reoccurring and welcomed side effect my clients notice from their exercise is a feeling of wellbeing.

Winter Seasonal Depression is a mental condition brought on by 3 depressing factors of the winter season.

1. Lack of Sunlight

Winter seasonal depression is often caused by a lack of sunlight which means a lack of activity. Face it, cold wet weather has created prisoners of us all at some point in our lives. This lack of activity can cause a drop in feel good brain chemicals that are produced during exercise leading to a slump in morale. Some good home exercise will do the trick and get your brain producing those chemicals you're lacking.

2) Feeling Down About the Holidays

Feeling down about the holidays can lead to winter seasonal depression that has to do with one's current situation in life. Maybe you are away from your loved ones for the holiday season or you cannot afford to buy the people you love the gifts you feel they deserve making you depressed. This is obviously a tougher case that requires matters in your personal life to change but exercise has been proven as not only a great distraction from depression but also a stress reliever. Exercise will help you pass the time this winter season, relieve stress, and will help you cope with your winter seasonal depression.

3) Feeling Down After the Passing of the Holiday Season

Feeling down after the passing of the holiday season is a common problem people have to deal with in the winter. The holiday season is a fun and exciting time of the year. Everything has a fun and festive winter theme and our spirituality is at a yearly high. The problem with great highs is from the peak the only place to go is down which can lead to depression. In addition to all the festivities, the holiday season also offers us much more to do to keep our minds and bodies active in the winter. Once the shopping is done our activity levels drop and so does the production of those feel good chemicals causing winter seasonal depression. Just like in scenario 1 you should get exercising to fight your depression and balance out your brain chemicals to restore that healthy mental state.