I have suffered much of my life with a specific sort of depression.

• It went undiagnosed for most of my life.

I would get so down during the winter or during long stretches of cloudy, rainy weather. My parents would always simply urge me to snap out of it. They thought I just hated school or was bummed over a girl or something. This wasn’t it at all but it would take until I was in college to figure out what it was. I was finally diagnosed with Sun Affected Disorder or commonly referred to as SAD. And that is not an HVAC air conditioning problem! All it took for me to get better was sunshine. In the event that I could not get any sun, I had a special lamp that helped my mood remarkably. In the winter, I would crank up the HVAC heating and turn on my lamp. So, that has been my normal for the last 25 years. But all that is getting ready to change. Due to some very fortunate circumstances, I have been able to retire about 10 years early. So, I am moving to a region where the sun is far more abundant. What’s even better is the fact that I will have a room that is completely dedicated to my being able to remain in the sun. That’s right, I’m moving into a house with a sunroom. This way, even during the moderate winter, I’ll be able to enjoy the benefits of sunshine for my mental health. However, I will need to do something about being able to cool the sunroom during the heat of summer. I think I will put in a mini split HVAC heating and cooling system.

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