{"id":496555,"date":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496555\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:37:08","slug":"why-winter-feels-so-bad-and-what-you-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496555\/","title":{"rendered":"Why winter feels so bad \u2013 and what you can do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/article-coming-soon-happy-enough-a-new-podcast-about-happiness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Happy Enough<\/a> on your favourite podcast app or platform, including: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/happy-enough\/id1795770881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1M2ZuZCef0pCWRm8eBPrfR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, affects millions of people each year. But what causes it, who is most at risk, and is there anything you can do to avoid the winter blues? In this episode, Garvia talks with Dr. Raymond Lam, a psychiatrist and BC Leadership Chair in Depression Research at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lam shares how daylight and weather can influence our mood, explains why Canadians are more likely to experience SAD, and gives practical tips to help you get through this harsh winter with your happiness intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, follow Happy Enough on your favourite podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,85781,39096,85779,84,10400,85780,1399,199078,1404,199079],"class_list":["post-496555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-happiest-people","tag-happiness","tag-happy-enough","tag-health","tag-life","tag-living-better","tag-nopolly","tag-ordid3793353589pod","tag-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-id-8655d0b3-692f-43e6-aec7-7c230d3cd9df"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}