Picture this, it is Christmas Eve in Wisconsin. The wind is blowing and snow is coming down like a great force of nature. Everyone around you is laughing and having the time of their life, embracing each other's presence, but for some reason you are sad inside. Yeah, you can fake a smile and pretend everything is ok but in your head everything is miserable. You think that maybe it's just the winter blues and you're sad like everyone else gets when it gets colder out. But after year after year of this happening, you start to realize it is something much more than that. You have Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is described as a form of unipolar or bipolar mood disorder which, unlike other forms of depression, follows a strictly seasonal pattern. (3). Many people get sadder during winter due to the lack of vitamin d and being locked in their house, unable to go out and do things because the snow is ruining all their options of things to do. This is referred to as the winter blues, and is a less severe form of seasonal depression. During the winter, in general this group of people suffer a form of sporadic depression. Many people feel tired and sad at times, gain weight and have trouble getting out of bed. Over 10 million people in America, however, feel more extreme form of these symptoms and they are the ones who are diagnosed with SAD. This group of people constantly feel lethargic and depressed. It goes so far that social and work related activities are neglected frequently. Many symptoms of SAD are sugar cravings, depression, weight gain, insomnia with an increased desire to sleep, and lethargy. These symptoms begin to occur in October or November and they disappear in early spring. Many studies show that patients with SAD and live at northern latitudes note that the more north they live, the more severe their SAD is. Although SAD occurs in the winter, patients often report that during fall and spring when it is cloudy and raining