Do you know that seasonal changes affect mood?

Fall blues is watching you? We do not panic, it’s normal: science proves it, the change of season affects the mood.

Fall is here, and you feel less playful, even melancholy. Well, this typical fall from the summer to the fall (yes, it feels much less when you move from winter to spring, is it?) Is very real, and it is the science that affirms it. Kathryn Roecklein, a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, told the Huffington Post that the consequences of the change of season, which does not affect everyone in the same way, are the following: less sociable, we lose interest in our favorite activities and we have less energy. Changes in sleep also occur: it is possible to have trouble falling asleep and / or want to sleep more than usual.

The light at the center of mood change
And these mood changes are related to light, and especially to the fact that days are getting shorter. The sunsets arrive more and more early, and it is around this time of the day that we feel the most change of mood. And whoever is responsible for all this is our body itself, or rather our circadian clock. The circadian clock is the internal timekeeper of the body, which indicates when to fall asleep, when to wake up and which plays a role in particular in the hormonal secretion, the regulation of the temperature and the mood. When there is less light in a day, it causes a disruption of the circadian clock, and therefore, mood.

                                                                                                                    *Youssra Erraki