SAD or HAPPY ... Let's go on vacation!!!

So yesterday one of my Facebook friends posted something about Seasonal Affective Disorder. Living in Washington, I figured we all have a slight case of that, but who wants to medicate if you don't need to, right? Well, I got to thinking and wondering exactly what SAD was, so I looked it up. It's kinda funny to me that the acronym is SAD. It's described by Wikipedia as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, summer blues, or seasonal depression. It's a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer, spring or autumn year after year.


Yep, I got it. Oh well, I bet if I looked up 100 other disorders, I'd be convinced I had at least half of those too. That's why I stay off of Wikipedia. I'm convinced that too much learnin' gets you in trouble...:) I do my best to stay a little stupid. And I'm damn good at it too. There's less trouble that way. I certainly don't wanna be too smart for my own good. My smartness definitely supercedes my goodness. Or was it the other way around?


As someone who searches for the silver lining in any predicament, I was thinking that all of us with SAD should just sit down and write songs. If Radiohead and Beck can make hits like Creep and Loser, I'm convinced that us Washingtonians could use the blues to take over the charts. 


Then again, maybe the airwaves don't need any more songs about depression. How about we just listen to Jack Johnson and wish we were vacationing in Hawaii? Better yet, start saving those pennies and lets plan a vacation. We could all go together and call it: Hawaii And Plan Parties Yippee-Kiya, or HAPPY. Damn, I'm clever. Truthfully, it took me about 10 minutes to come up with that. Sounds like my dumbness is superceding my smartness big time this morning. I guess solving mental health disorders isn't as easy as I thought. If only a clever acronym was the trick. Well, keep your heads up Washingtonians. Our two months of summer is here. Let's make the most of it.