[Guest]

I noticed that lots of people that have dp are from depressing areas to live in like montreal canada, the uk, minnesota, ummm new york, all of them have cold weather mostly and dark gloomy days i think.. coincidence ?

 

[lone wolf]

Don't forget North Europe! However, I can endure the long, dark winter because I have the chance to enjoy the summer days and nights full of light here. It is just a pity that the nordic summer is so short...

 

[[rula]]

don't think it's a coincidence at all. the body needs natural light to make happy neurotransmitters, serotonin. don't they sell light boxes for depression therapy? problem is with my DP, i can't stand anything too bright! i keep it dark, vampire style.

 

[JasonFar]

Yeah lack of Vitamin D (which sunlight produces) will hurt you I think (at least that's the theory).

 

[Kelson12]

Ohio=sucky weather!

I think it contributes to my depression. Cause I usually feel better in the Spring and Summer.

 

[kenc127]

LOL Johnny, that was funny. I'm from sunny southern California, and I am DPd. I don't think there is a coincidence. There may be a coincidence with depression and these locations.

Ken

 

[jft]

Utah. How could you suggest that living in Fargo, North Dakota is depressing and thus predisposing to different maladies? Did you ever see the movie Fargo? Remember that beautiful landscape in the dead of winter? Those uplifting characters with the woodchippers?
We like it here. Where else can one be locked into their cabin for 5 months out of the year because it is so dark and so cold your spit freezes on air impact, where the winds have howled daily for thousands of years, where it is so flat that when your spit does thaw in the spring it causes major flooding of the Red River, where there are no trees really and the highest mountian is the local dike built to stop the spring spittle flooding, and where the spiciest food is Norwegian flatbread.
After five months of playing cards indoors we look forward to going out doors again, only to be greeted first by black gnats and then trillions of mosquoitos and black flies which force us back
inside to play cards until the next fall when the freeze kills the bugs. And then winter comes.
It is a very good place to live. If you like cards.
jft

 

[Guest]

lol jft, Kenc im from southern cali as well but before i suddenly got dp i was in kansas during the winter for 3 months and stayed home all day, i mean i really didnt go outside for 3 whole months... i was inside all the time, this has to be a contibuting factor to my dp. I know that bad weather can bring on depression, why not depersonalization.

 

[kenc127]

Well, I think the 2 are very different amimals. I think depression is a mood based disorder, and I think DP is a personality based disorder.
Just an opinion.

Ken

 

[Guest]

yeh uk weather is pretty sucky....It's my dream to live in CA...better weather its weird how weather changes mood- there's a disorder called SAD (seasonal affective disorder) that some people have but i duno if its DP/DR related