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The foggy Sacramento winter is prime time for seasonal affective disorder.
For Rocklin resident Linda Blackmarr, it happens every year like clockwork.
Literally.
“Every year I dread the time change that’s when I start getting anxious,” she says. Thus begins the cycle: Each fall, when daylight saving time ends and we turn the clocks back an hour, Blackmarr begins anticipating winter weather and another season of SAD.
SAD could not be a more perfect acronym for seasonal affective disorder, which brings an annual cloak of sadness (think Sacramento fog) to about 5% of adults in the United States, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, as a type of depression (major depressive disorder with seasonal pattern), SAD typically takes hold during the fall and winter months, when there
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