Seasonal Adjustment Disorder

My friend Kathy sent me a message about "Seasonal Adjustment Disorder." She was searching for seasonal adjustment web sites, and came across a blog from South Africa in the process.
http://bipolardaily.blogspot.com/2005/09/seasonal-adjustment-disorder-sad.html

I found another mention of it in another blog at
http://seasonal-affective-disorder-sad.blogspot.com/2005/11/history-of-seasonal-affective-disorder.html
"In the United States, the diagnosis of Seasonal Affective Disorder was first suggested by one Norman E. Rosenthal, MD. His work was based on personal observations of his own seasonal adjustment when moving from South Africa to New York. "

I am well aware of the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder. I noticed a difference in my usual post-Christmas blues being so much farther north this year than I was used to, and now that it is March, I notice the increase in sunshine. I had just not heard it called Seasonal Adjustment Disorder, unless it was one of my friends kidding around with me. Since the blogger is from South Africa, and this Dr. Rosenthal seems to have done his own "seasonal adjustment", maybe calling it Seasonal Adjustment Disorder is a South African thing.

I did a GoogleFight between the two phrases. "Seasonal Affective Disorder" is mentioned 1,430,000 times on the web, and "Seasonal Adjustment Disorder" is mentioned only 1,390 times.

However, I think I have it. I really do. I have six reports to write, and I'm having trouble getting the data I need into a form that X-12 and TRAMO/SEATS can read. I think the best way to describe the situation right now is "Seasonal Adjustment Disorder."

Delay for the papers

I'm still working on the papers pages, but I had to take a break to deal with some computer problems on the family computer due to the Trojan.Zlob.H. It showed up right at the time when our anti-virus software expired and needed to be updated, and we had problems with the update because of the Zlob. It's been an interesting experience. I'm learning quite a bit about trojans and rogue spyware software.

I do hope to get more papers loaded soon on my web site, and the pages that link to the papers completed after that.

It's up!

The site is up! After a month of every other evening and random hours on weekends, the pages I wanted are on my site at http://www.catherinechhood.net/. The main reason I wanted the site was to help me answer emails from people, and the most important parts are the FAQ and the papers, and I don't have the paper pages finished yet. Still, a major accomplishment for me in the midst of all the shopping for Christmas and my usual scrapbooking projects.

Hooray!

Catherine C.H. Hood

I've really enjoyed blogging about our experiences in moving to Luxembourg. I thought that I should set up a blog also to accompany the new web site: http://www.catherinechhood.net/.