I get it...really bad in January.
Posted By: Hayseed on 2007-02-27
In Reply to: S.A.D. - ER MT
I've been on medications (awful awful side effects like even worsening fatigue and weight gain) and tried the lights. Nothing works for me except getting outside for longer than a few minutes at a time and that is so hard to do when everything is covered in ice and it's freezing cold with crazy winds. I bottom out in the first week of February, feeling totally crappy about how I look and feel, and swear I'm gonna leave New England for good, but I never do. Then the days gradually start to get longer and I feel a little better with each passing day.
Back when I lived in another state, the mall was very close by and I would go walking there almost every day during the winter, but where I am now it is at least 1/2 hour away and just not worth the gas. The more rural a person is, I think the worse the depression can get.
It is so frustrating!
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Is this for 1 month? Just January 2007?
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me - I begin in January, right after Christmas
On January 21st and thereafter, a check is not going to
magically appear in your mailbox each month to help out. Please don't rely on that!
Season 6 starts mid-January - the 15th maybe? (sm)
There have been commercials on FOX but cannot recall the date - you can watch the trailer at FOX and the date is probably there also but couldn't find on my quick search. I'm having serious withdrawal myself :(
Her name was Meredith Emerson, and it was just last January that she was killed.
I know the story very well, and even hiked in memory of her a few weeks after she was killed. Her murder caused great grief along the entire 2100+ miles of the trail, and all of us who love the trail know full well what can happen out there.
The trail community is very difficult to explain to people who haven't experienced it. Yes, people have been killed on the Appalachian Trail, probably about a dozen or so in the over 70 years that the trail has been open. Given the thousands who walk all or part of the trail each year, it is statistically safer on the trail than in "civilization". You are correct, however, that hikers are more in danger than the people who pick them up. The most dangerous places on the trail are at the trailheads and near roads where people pretend to help hikers and then do harm. That is why I pick up hikers, because they are more afraid of me than I am of them. Also, there's quite a bit of communication that goes up and down the trail, and we do keep track of people as they travel. It's very likely that when I pick someone up near the trail, I've heard about their trip. In hiker slang, people who help hikers are called trail angels. It's a different situation. It's not 100% safe, but I choose not to cower at home. I hike the A.T. and other trails, usually with friends, sometimes alone. I tell my family, that if harm should come to me, either through accident or evil, they should remember that I go into the woods because I love it, and should I die there, they should remember that I loved it too much to stay away.
The Appalachian Trail is not the lawless, dangerous passageway that so many people think it is. More times than I can count, I've been asked about the dangers of the trail. Usually I just shrug and smile. It's not worth the argument, because I can't change the minds of people who don't know. On the other hand, I don't want to change minds. If I did, there'd be traffic jams on the trail, and it wouldn't be fun anymore.
My favorite Christmas treat is January 2. lol. be glad when it is over.
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About 60 and it has been our coldest January in like 28 years. My neighboring town got
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Just FYI - I have successfully sent over chocolates from November thru January with no problems -
After that you are taking a big chance of it melting!
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