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Managing Anger in the Dark Days of Winter
The holidays are behind us, the winter solstice has come and gone, so the days are getting longer. (Cheers to that!)
Still here we are kicking off the dark days of January which means even more time indoors. And that can result in feeling more agitated, less stable, and angry.
“This seasonal component is related to the amount of sunlight,” says Melvin McInnis, MD, director of psychiatry programs at the University of Michigan Depression Center in Ann Arbor. “In the wintertime, people are more depressed.”
The medical field has long established a relationship between bipolar and seasonal depression, which can test tempers.