Climate change may make summer SAD more common or worse for some sufferers--health experts

Seasonal affective disorder strikes some in the summer. Climate change may make it worse. Story at a glance As climate change brings on hotter and hotter summers, health experts worry a type of depression called summer seasonal affective disorder could become more common.   People … Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech The Hill

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Health experts fear increasing temperatures and amounts ofairborne pollen linked to climate change could make summer SAD more common or worsen symptoms among those who already suffer from the condition, potentially putting them at greater risk of committing suicide.    

“I have little doubt that climate change will make a huge difference, both to the number of people who are going to suffer from summer SADand to the severity of those people who already feel that they’re having summer SAD,” said Norman Rosenthal, a psychiatrist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine who, along with a team of colleagues, first identified season affective disorder in 1984.    

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