Seasonal Depression

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo in the morning show. So
yesterday I did something that I haven't done in a
long time. I ate dinner and I went right to bed,
and I'm talking my dinner ain't like a late dinner.
I ate dinner at like six thirty, and then I
really was dying and I crashed. And I think that
it's gotten to a point where it's not that I

(00:21):
was tired, and I did work out yesterday, so I'm
gonna do a little you know, I don't show like
pictures of me in the gym like some people do.
I just tell you about it on the radio because
I want more people to hear it. But I did
work out yesterday, and I was tired afterwards, and I
ate dinner and then I just went to bed, and
then I started thinking about it when I woke up
this morning and I was talking to Lydia about this.

(00:43):
I think that since the clock's changed, and since it
started getting darker at an earlier time, like it started
like five thirty and then it's been like five twenty
now five fifteen. Now it's honestly five. I really feel
like at five o'clock it's done. Oh yeah, and it's
gotten to a point where I drive to work and

(01:04):
it's dark, and I feel like I don't get home
and get like in mode of wanting to be able
to go and do anything because there have so many
appointments during the day that I'm driving home in the dark.
And I don't know if any of you else are
feeling the same way, if you're a listener that works
middle of the night and then goes to another job afterwards.
But this whole thing has really gotten to me. And

(01:25):
I have never seen any other year get to me
like this year has gotten to me. I've never really
had seasonal depression. Matter of fact, honestly, I poop poot
anybody that had it. And now I'm feeling like I
might need to go and, you know, talk to a
therapist about this or figure out.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
One of those lights. Have you ever seen the people
that wa sep in the morning and they do the light?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Did you do that? It's a much alarm clock and
it emulates a sunrise every morning. So I have that too.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I'm talking about some people have like like a
red light therapy, Like it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, it's I think it's not red light. I I
think it literally is a seasonal depression light. Yes, where
it lights up your room to a point where it
makes you feel like you are outside in the sun.
I had a neighbor that had that, and honestly I
thought that they were grown weed. But I will tell
you this that I, in all the years that I
have been on this earth, have never in my life

(02:20):
ever felt more affected by the fact that it gets
darker earlier than I have this year.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
That was a foreign term to me, maybe five or
six years ago. I had never heard up until that
point seasonal depression, had never experienced it, had never heard.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Anybody actually articulate it.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
But the more and more I guess I live, you
start to hear more and more people that just feel
completely different. They feel down, they feel dejected, they feel
removed in like a lack of enthusiasm in their life
because they're experiencing seasonal depression.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I don't know what the reasoning is of why we
don't change, to just go solid with the way it
is in the summertime, no daylight saving. Yeah, like i'd
I know, they say, Well, kids would go to the
bus stop. No kid goes to a bus anymore. Like
these kids, their parents are all dropping them off at
drop off lanes and stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
And honestly, listen, nobody's going to a bus.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
How many parents are taking Even the kids have that
have buses services, their parents still take them because the
kid doesn't want to get on a bus. I feel
like these excuses don't weigh anymore. And I feel like, honestly,
more people are affected by this than aren't affected by this.
And there's some kind of a thing. I think that
maybe it's the drug companies want us to be taking

(03:34):
zoloft or whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think they know. I think they want us to
take uh.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
But here's hey, no shame, because definitely we medicate. But
I feel like, honestly, we may not need the medication
if we had more son. What's going on, Nicle? How
you doing not bad?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
You feel in the same way? Huh?

Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah, I do so. As a result, I always look
up and find out when the winter So is.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
My birthday December twenty first? Really, what does that mean?
Shortest day of the year?

Speaker 6 (04:08):
That is Yep, it sure is so. Therefore would it
be the shortest day of the year. That's what I
look forward to, because then the days will just start
getting longer.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Wait, so the shortest day of the year on the
twenty first, then day afterwards in the twenty second, the
days will get longer.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
At that moment sunlight, oh.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Will start longer.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
So we're inching towards that.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But until then, I don't know if I can surviveicot
worse and worse. I think I'm going to be really
are Do you get affected by sun as much as
as much as I have been getting affected this year?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, when the sun's down, I'm down. When the sun's up,
I'm up.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's weird my house, my house. I feel like I'm
sitting there and you know, one thing I'm watching. I
always joking with the Jelsey. I go all of a sudden,
I'm watching Current Affair and then it's dark, you know
what I mean, or whatever the show is that's on.
You know, they run some kind of show that's on
TV here, the Kelly Clarkson Show, and it's like, I
can't watch the Kelly Clarkson's show.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
It a dark time for me.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's not even trouble for having all the lights on
in my house.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh yeah, it's not even depression as much as it is.
I don't want to do anything once it gets dark, Like,
I have work. Then I caught the kids around to
all their stuff and by the time I get home,
I'm like, oh, well it's dark, I might as well
just put my pajamas on, and you know, hang hang,
like I'm not motivated to get anything done.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Then I need to get done. Just more sleepy once
it starts.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, Nicole, thanks for the call. I appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
Yeah, first time.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
For your first time a long time. We love you, Nicole,
see that. Yeah, thanks, it's the first time I called you.
She's sad. It was the sun and now what's going on? Eve?

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It's Mojo in the morning.

Speaker 8 (05:54):
Hi?

Speaker 9 (05:54):
So yeah, absolutely, I'm right there with you. I mean,
I finished dinner. I got to sit on the couch
and watch the show. In three minutes, I'm out.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (06:03):
It's like I work in a doctor's office. I don't
get to see the sun. I go in and it's dark,
I come out and it's dark. Yeah, and I'm just
waiting for February seconds. I feel like a groundhog. I
don't see the sun ever.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, it's so true.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I now give me Groundhog's Day and let me see
my shadow for gosh sake. It's not the cold too.
I know a lot of people will say that it's
the cold. It's not. It hasn't been that cold. It's
just been dark. And that's the thing I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I don't like it. It's weird.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Uh, Samantha, what's going on, Samantha?

Speaker 7 (06:34):
How are you guys?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
We're well, obviously we're not very up plasting right now.
But you want to you really want to know how
I'm doing? Not well, but go ahead, what's going on
with you?

Speaker 7 (06:43):
No? I get see the whole depression all the time.
And I work at like a drive through, and so
I have to go in and out of the building,
and I'm used to once to get stark to being
able to like, oh it's almost time to close, and
now I see it gets dark and it's like I
still got five hours of work.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
You know, that's true. That is why the one.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
Time I was driving my daughter just to preschool and
she looked outside and she goes, Mommy, I don't like
this time of year. Everything just looks dead. And I'm like,
that is the perfect description this time.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Of year from the mouth of babes. You know what.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
They're so honest when it comes to that and honest,
I guess I'm okay.

Speaker 9 (07:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Some people want to have like it is now where
the light is out. I don't mind it. In the morning,
it doesn't make me sad. I'm drinking a cup of coffee.
I'm okay with it. But at night I want to
have a later night. Yeah, Shannon, what's up?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Shannon?

Speaker 10 (07:32):
Hey, Mojoe, I am a person that's seasonally depressed, just
like you.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're not alone.

Speaker 10 (07:40):
I was listening to you talk about maybe going to
see a therapist. I don't see a therapist for seasonal depression.
So if you come up with someone that you think
is great, please let us know.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think I'm just going to go to the guy
that I normally go to. I think this would be
one I just talked to that because I don't want
to start somebody new. I hate going to new therapist
because then I got to tell my whole life all
over again.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
You know, Yeah, you're not wrong.

Speaker 10 (08:01):
Yeah, I hope so it gets better for all of us.
At this point, I'm just coming home from working and
curling up in the corner of the couch with my
sleep blanket.

Speaker 9 (08:08):
It's just terrible. I don't have any energy to do
anything anymore.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
So Yeah, I'm going to put on the Winter fifteen
because of all I want to do is eat bowls
of cereal.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
For some reason, that's my thing.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well it's not. It's the healthy kind. It's checks or
go honey cherios. I'm a little raisin bran over here,
bangs bran.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's like old people service. Yeah, I was a child grandmama.
What's up? I'm Melissa Hill Jo.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
You're you're not lying about this whole It's so much
worse this year. It just keeps getting earlier and earlier.
And the craziest thing that happened to me is that
I work all day too, and when I get home,
I usually try to take my kids outside for a
little bit and we try to take a walk in
our neighborhood and everything, I mean, nobody was outside. It
felt like it was like ten o'clock at night. And

(09:04):
there was one house where there was a dad that
his sons were outside playing in the leaves and in
the front of their house. He had this huge light
he was shining on them, and he must have been
worried because you really couldn't see anything, Like if we
were we wouldn't have been able to see them at all,
So I don't know if it was because he was
kind of worried.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
You know, like, what time of day was this again?

Speaker 8 (09:22):
Do you never anything? It was like five thirty.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, it was like we used to.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Do this in my family. It used to be you
don't come home until the street lights come on. They're
coming on it.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Seriously, Yeah, it looked like it was like it looked
like it was like three in the morning, and like
every I didn't see anybody outside, and my kids were like, mom,
it feels so crazy. And these kids were just playing
in their leaves, but you couldn't even see them. He
had to literally kind of light on them. It was
so depressing.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
That is so wild. By the way, somebody just said
I should go Tanning. Could you imagine me at a Tanning.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Move skin cancer?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
You know it'd be fun me and sixteen year old
girls hanging out at a tanning Boothy.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
All right, miss fit Tony, what's going on? Tony?

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Hey, good morning family, how y'all is depressed?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Listen to you? I told you guyst the bluetooth.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
No, it's the bluetooth. It really is in my car.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, my Bluetooth is like really.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Dynamic, so it makes me sound way more louder than
I really actually am. But anyway, I did, I did
get a lesson in a cordialness, so from.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Who from Lydia? Yeah, when you're screaming all the time,
you were.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Hype the last because I am not putting you on
the air if you're going to be as animated as
you always are.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Okay, Well, Tony, I want you to still be Tony.
But I couldn't understand you last time. You were eating
the phone. Uh, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Tony?

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Winter is my favorite season. You guys should not be
depressed whatsoever. It is an amazing time the half sex
cuddle up through all the things.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Maybe that's the problem. We will you call Chelsea for me?
Say hey Chelsea.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yeah, Mojo, come on man, your name is Mojo.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Gotta work, Yo, Mojo. I tried to you.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Gotta slide in her DM today and be like, yo, baby,
what you're doing? You know what I'm saying, Look, creativity, Mojo.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I'm gonna do that.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I'm gonna I'm gonna go last year, last she asked
me for a massage last night, and you heard me
talk about that I can't do a massage without getting,
you know, a little frisky, and to be quite honest
with you, she like turned me down after the first
like rub, and then I was like, oh, okay, so
all right, Tony, I'm gonna slide in her DMS.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I appreciate it because I am mojo