Posted by Pete (4.34.217.240) on July 10, 2001 at 11:03:36:
In Reply to: change in weather, barometric pressure? posted by Brian on March 14, 1999 at 15:09:54:
My wife was first diagnosed with weather related depression when she was in her 30's. The diagnosis was made at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY by a psychologist. He had her chart her moods on a scale of 1-10 and record the barometric pressure for the same period. There was an exact correlation between her "bad times" and low barometric pressure.
We are now retired in Florida where we have shortlived but daily storms during the summer months. I know several hours in advance of a system moving through the area. She gets very quiet, depressed, and "feels like crying".
Our storms at present are in the afternoon so she completes her plans in the morning, knowing she will not feel well in the afternoon.
She is currently taking the drug Zoloft which has moderated the storm effect. She does not have migraines as indicated by other responses on this message board. Her "bad times" usually last only a couple of hours and she feels markedly better as soon as it begins to rain and the storm passes. We believe it may be a genetic problem since her mother had something similar and one of her sons (30) has the same problem and reacts in the same way.