Living with SAD: practicing cultures of seasonality to 'feel light' differently.

想象一下这个场景。这是一个我们都可以认同的，在某种程度上：10月下旬。时钟已经往回拨了。清晨的阳光更明媚，看起来更美。光本身就像一种珍贵而濒危的东西。转变正在进行中。以精力和情绪的低迷为标志，很难起床工作，很难清晰地思考，或者很难鼓起热情。在最糟糕的时候，有一种明显的下沉的感觉...与季节变化有关的感觉，以及似乎由头顶上的天气性质和自然光的相关性质所控制的情绪，是我们所有人都知道的现象。季节性情感障碍（SAD）是这种生活经历的一种强化形式，对于英国相当多的人来说，这种生活经历可能会使人衰弱和限制，导致情绪挑战，情绪低落和焦虑感。这个研究项目进入SAD的生活经验，试图检查它的发生和影响，在个人的生活世界。研究团队将与那些自认为患有SAD谱抑郁症的人密切合作，更全面地开发叙事，创造性和治疗教育资源，以检查和反映SAD体验，并建立一个自助计划，由NHS批准的网站“全面生活”主办，每年有超过40，000人注册。该计划将提供一系列福祉干预措施，以减轻城市和农村环境中的明暗和季节变化的负面体验。研究团队结合了不同的技能和方法，适合跨学科实践和公众参与。它由文化地理学家和一名创造性艺术保健从业者组成，与一名认知行为疗法专家共同工作。通过将注意力集中在SAD作为一种广泛经验丰富但知之甚少的情感现象上，该研究项目将产生相当大的公众影响，启动关于解决如何通过改变季节模式生活得更好的问题的全国对话，并设想各种适应性生活技能和文化工具，以应对目前与全球气候变化相关的心理健康挑战。与国家级组织建立的项目合作伙伴关系网络将利用我们的研究结果，在公共部门就心理健康、可持续性和气候适应力开展有意义的“全国对话”。我们的合作伙伴--一个专家咨询小组--将确保对该项目的战略投入，并已帮助我们确定产生研究影响的明确途径。在未来的时间里，我们都可能会在不断变化的气候条件（暴风雨天气和烟雾弥漫的黑暗天空）方面感到悲伤，这个项目提供了有针对性的资源来帮助减轻这些影响，并提供指导方法来增加人们与户外环境之间的创造性和具体联系。

Picture the scene. It's one we can all identity with, at some level: late October. The clocks have gone back. The mornings are colder and certainly looking darker. Light itself feels like a precious and endangered thing. A shift is underway. Marked by a downturn in energy and mood, it's tougher to get up for work, feels harder to think clearly, or to muster much in the way of enthusiasm. During the worst spells, there's an unmistakable feeling of sinking ...Feelings associated with the changing seasons, and moods that seem to be governed by the nature of the weather overhead and related qualities of natural light, are a phenomenon known to us all. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is an intensified form of this lived experience that, for considerable numbers of people in the UK, can be debilitating and limiting, resulting in emotional challenges, lowered mood, and feelings of anxiety. This research project enters the lived experience of SAD, seeking to examine its occurrence and impacts in individuals' life-worlds. Working closely with people who self-identify as experiencing depression on a SAD spectrum, the research team will develop narrative, creative and therapeutic-educational resources more fully to examine and reflect SAD experiences, and to build a self-help programme to be hosted by the NHS-approved website, 'Living Life to the Full', to which over 40,000 people register annually. The programme will offer a range of well-being interventions to mitigate against negative experiences of lightness-darkness and changing seasons, in both urban and rural environments.The research team combines differing skills and approaches, suited to interdisciplinary practice and public engagement. It is comprised of cultural geographers and a creative arts-health practitioner, jointly working with a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) expert. By focusing attention on SAD as a widely experienced, but poorly understood, affective phenomenon, the research project will have considerable public impact, initiating national conversations about addressing questions of how to live well through altered seasonal patterns and envisaging the sorts of adaptive life skills and cultural tools required for the mental health challenges now associated with global climate change. A network of project partnerships held with national-level organisations will leverage our finding to create meaningful 'national conversations' on mental health, sustainability and climate resilience in the public sector. Our partners - an expert advisory group - will ensure strategic input to the project, and have already helped us identify clear pathways to generate research impact. In future times, we all might be at risk of feeling SAD in relation to changing climate conditions (stormier weather and smoke-filled darker skies) and this project offers targeted resources to help mitigate these affects, as well as offering guided ways to increase creative and embodied connections between people and outdoor environments.