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Scotland Outdoors

How to Winter Well

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen finds out how to winter well over the next few months. He meets a group of academics from Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities looking into the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder and discovers what can be done to improve winter depression

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:43.7

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.6

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:49.8

I don't know about you, but I'm one of those folk that is essentially solar powered.

0:53.8

Come the wintertime when basically the nights get much, much longer and the days get much shorter,

0:58.7

my energy levels really go down.

1:01.3

You know, that's not necessarily a problem.

1:02.9

There's nothing wrong with sleeping longer.

1:04.6

But for some people, the symptoms are much more serious than that.

1:08.7

Sad, seasonal, effective disorder.

1:11.5

Now, a group of academics from Edinburgh and Glasgow universities

1:14.5

have been running something called Wintering Well workshops,

1:18.0

culminating in a booklet called Light,

1:20.5

the Guide to Wintering Well.

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