Good afternoon, everyone. It is Dr. Nigro again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

A heartfelt thank you to all of our followers and supporters.

We're very privileged, Julie and I that you've welcomed us into your lives and into your mental health journeys and see us as some as a source of information and we cannot be more

appreciative and grateful so i will give you all the contact information of how to get a hold of me

as i always do at the end of the show and i try my best if i haven't gotten back to you keep

reaching out i will eventually call, and people

are still surprised when I return a text or return of an email, and I just appreciate the respect

that you guys have all shown Julie and I. So Julie's here today, and as I said last week, we're

going to do our best to minimize the extraneous noise, for example, chopping an entire meal.

So we're going to do that after the podcast.

Julie has a great chicken soup recipe that's kind of a French Greek combination, so it's really, really good.

Gets us for a couple days.

So this week's episode, I'm going to talk about some little unique with diagnostics,

because this is the time of year where we do see increased rates of depression,

whether that's major depressive disorder, dysthymia, persistent depressive disorder,

seasonal affective disorder, very common in daylight, gets dark here in Massachusetts, now like at 415, 430.

And, you know, my office gets pretty dark. So being a historical building, we're limited in terms of we can't have electricity coming and put lights in.

So it gets a little tricky.

So we have lots of lamps, many of which Julie has taken from my office.

But it was struck me this week because I was going over people's, a few people's neuro-skevals.

I'm going to stick really with depression on this one, just to keep it straight forward.

Because in the diagnostic manual, there are what are called specifiers.

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