National Seasonal Affective Disorder Awareness Day 2015 – check out this brilliant infographic to find out more


Out Like a Light: SAD and Winter Blues

This infographic was commissioned by First Choice.

Friday sees National Seasonal Affective Disorder Awareness Day 2015. We thought it would be useful to help promote awareness of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) by sharing this excellent infographic.

You can recent a past interview with Dr Rob Hick about SAD entitled “Desperately seeking sun – Do you get the Winter Blues?

Do you know any Seasonal Affective Disorder online resources?

It would be great if you could share them in the comments section below.

Thanks very much in advance!


How to boost your mood naturally this Autumn (or Fall) – Check out this great WebTV show!


Happy and Healthy - boost your mood!

Happy and Healthy – boost your mood!

Watch our live and interactive web TV show where Dr Hilary Jones and health writer Sally Brown talk about the causes of low moods and what you can do to improve your frame of mind

Show date: Tuesday 23rd September
Show time: 3pm

We all suffer bad moods from time to time, but do you often feel your bad moods are more common than good ones? And as summer ends and autumn sets in, do you worry your moods are about to get even lower?

New research released by Healthspan has looked into some of the main reasons women suffer from bad moods, with things like a lack of money, feeling overweight, bad weather and even our partners the cause of our mood swings.

But could there be more to our bad moods than our circumstances? Could lifestyle factors, such as our diet, our sleeping patterns and even conditions such as SAD be to blame?

Log on to our live and interactive web TV show where Dr Hilary Jones and health writer Sally Brown answer all your questions and talk about some of the most common reasons for low moods as well as giving solutions for those of us who want some practical advice on how to lift our moods.