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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by winter a cold dark dreary time

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of year unless you live in california Did you know

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the entire states permanently set toe a balmy seventy eight

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degrees here's today's question mary lives in denver and become

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sad in winter during the summer seasons She feels happier

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she might suffer from what And here are potential answers

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Sad mad poor mary don't get sad get glad or

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is it Don't get mad something like that Well this

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is why we didn't last is glad spoke person Alright

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well initially you might lean toward bipolar disorder After all

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bipolar disorder is a mental disorder best characterized by notable

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alternating periods of mood going from elation and positivity to

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depression and negativity However bipolar disorder has nothing to do

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with seasonal change and it's just possible that someone would

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feel up in the winter and down in the summer

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as they would the opposite So it's not our answer

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And seeing as the described feelings experienced by mary don't

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include anything to do with panic attacks We can eliminate

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dia's well though to be fair Panic it the sight

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Of snow isn't uncommon when californians venture further north what

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way only screamed and ran around the circles of her

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six times And unless mary sadness during wintertime is somehow

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linked to an irrational anxiety that she has a serious

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disease than hypochondria doesn't fit either So that leaves us

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with sad and mad And if you're thinking the answer

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must be sad because well that's mary's problem you're right

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but only because sad stands for seasonal affective disorder People

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suffering from sad usually experienced symptoms of depression during the

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cold dark months a winner and often tend to live

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in higher latitudes where there are fewer hours of sunlight

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One our advice Consider moving to california Just don't try

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touching the statewide thermostat nearly caused a state emergency Last

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time it was bumped down to a chilly seventy two 00:02:02.233 --> [endTime] degrees

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