#Seasonal Affective Disorder

#Seasonal Affective Disorder

Your article (Looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Sunday? Time to thank a farsighted builder from Kent, 25 October) misses the main point for many people. The extra hour of darkness in the afternoons outweighs the extra morning hour of light. Psychologically, you can deal with darker mornings when you know it's going to get light later, whereas those of us with seasonal affective disorder feel miserable at the prospect of endless hours of darkness from mid-afternoon onwards. Paul Highfield Sheffield

My therapist tells me it is seasonal memory. I find it a bit strange, since in the southern hemisphere where I now live, there are no cherry blossoms blooming as they are now in Herbert Park.