Glimpse – July 2019

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Woo hoo! I feel great!

ON THE OTHER HAND...

LIFE IS ESSENTIALLY BLEAK...'

HEALTH

Sometimes we have days where everything just seems to be going well and we start dancing and singing around the

house in a great mood. These kinds of days are days where we feel confident, happy with how life is going and peculiarly,

filled with immense energy.

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ome days are very good days

and on the other hand some

days are where people tend to

have low level of enthusiasm

for life and feel sad, depressive and not

willing to get up from the bed.

Our moods changes are a result of

hormones and neurotransmitters, and

the hormones that our body produce

depend on a lot of different factors but

weather change is one of the biggest

and basic reason behind our mood

swings.

According to a study done in New

York Times, we find people more active

and high on life on a sunny day as

compared to rainy days because sunlight

can affect our brain almost directly

through the thin parts of the skull and

other parts of the brain and triggers the

production of endorphins which are the

'feel good hormones' that put us in such

a good mood. A lack of sunlight then can

starve us of one of these major sources

of happiness hormones and this is what

causes many people to suffer from 'SAD'

• 'Seasonal Affective Disorder' – which
  is a more exaggerated dependency on
  the weather for our mood.
  "Rainy weather gives me a depressing