Walks help against winter depression

Even on dreary days helping walks against autumn-winter depression. This distortion, in which about one in four Germans more or less severely affected, mainly to the lack of light during the cold months due. "In the dark season should be to ensure sufficient light ensured. For example, an hour stay or walk in the daylight sky covered even if a seasonal depression significantly countered, "Mathias Berger recommended by the board of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Could complement specific areas in daylight lamps used in its spectral composition of natural sunlight at least partly correct. "It is important that the fluorescent light of these devices the retina of the eye reached, therefore, for example, the use of tanning devices no effect," said the professor, the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital in Freiburg forward.

For ease depression, according to Berger often antidepressiv effective St. John's wort preparations used. For effective action is the right dosage of the drug is essential. "Therefore, this herbal medicine under doctor's instructions always take," the expert advises. If the depression and joylessness persists in the spring, when psychiatrists must necessarily be clarified whether it is a non-seasonal depression involved. Because a persistent need for a depression and often psychotherapeutic medication treatment.