What Winter-time Illnesses Are In Your Area?

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2002-11-23 05:24am

Alright all you hypochondriacs out there...what type of Winter associated illnesses are floating around in your town?

Here in the Houston area, there's some kind of sore throat bug making it's way to people. Starts off with a scratchy throat and BOOM! sore throat for a week or two!

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-23 05:30am

Shopaholism

The women are spending money.
The men are having their money spent.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-23 05:30am

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-23 05:31am

Coughs and sneezes and the flu, just like just about everywhere else.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-23 05:33am

The usual. Flu, colds, hangovers.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2002-11-23 05:38am

All of the above plus depression that is caused by 17 hours of total darkness per day.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-23 05:40am

I catch colds. But then again, you'd catch colds if you lived in 16 degree weather all day long.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2002-11-23 07:41am

I live in centre, litoral, Portugal. We can go to the beach pratically all year. It doesn't snow. The temperatures are never low, and the winter sun still burns. Apart for the traditional sneezing/eventual flue, nothing really bothers us.

All of the above plus depression that is caused by 17 hours of total darkness per day

Damn. If I lived in Finland, I'd probally migrate during winter.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-23 01:11pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:I live in centre, litoral, Portugal. We can go to the beach pratically all year. It doesn't snow. The temperatures are never low, and the winter sun still burns. Apart for the traditional sneezing/eventual flue, nothing really bothers us.

All of the above plus depression that is caused by 17 hours of total darkness per day
Damn. If I lived in Finland, I'd probally migrate during winter.

i´d shoot myself! 17 hours... man!
you dont get ill if you dont want to! just tell yourself often enough that you´re perfectly healthy and you´ll be fine 99.999% of the time.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-23 01:13pm

Oberleutnant wrote:All of the above plus depression that is caused by 17 hours of total darkness per day.

Whee! No sunlight! Yay! Seriously, I tend to be called "Vampire" by some of my friends because I literally hiss at the sun sometimes. The only thing it's good for, IMO, is tanning.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-23 01:19pm

verilon wrote:
Oberleutnant wrote:All of the above plus depression that is caused by 17 hours of total darkness per day.
Whee! No sunlight! Yay! Seriously, I tend to be called "Vampire" by some of my friends because I literally hiss at the sun sometimes. The only thing it's good for, IMO, is tanning.

the sun will get you oout of your depressions!

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-23 01:19pm

We're in the 40s-50s right now, and while all my friends are bundled up in three layers of clothes (Southerners

), I'm walking outside in jeans and a t-shirt. Some colds going around, but the air's nice and crisp, like a late September morning in New England.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-23 01:22pm

salm wrote:
verilon wrote:
Oberleutnant wrote:All of the above plus depression that is caused by 17 hours of total darkness per day.
Whee! No sunlight! Yay! Seriously, I tend to be called "Vampire" by some of my friends because I literally hiss at the sun sometimes. The only thing it's good for, IMO, is tanning.
the sun will get you oout of your depressions!

Nonono....you misunderstand.....social interaction gets me out of depression, not sunlight. Why does everyone think that darkness causes depression all the time? I am also a night person....VERY active at night time. Which means that darkness = better. For me, I am happier at nighttime than I am during the daytime, especially when I am hanging out with somebody.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2002-11-23 01:22pm

Coughs, sniffles, colds, flus, Bubonic Plagues to the north, he same old... actually there was a case of the bubonic plague not to long ago in northen New Mexico. What happens when stupid people deal with rats...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-23 01:25pm

verilon wrote:
salm wrote:
verilon wrote: Whee! No sunlight! Yay! Seriously, I tend to be called "Vampire" by some of my friends because I literally hiss at the sun sometimes. The only thing it's good for, IMO, is tanning.
the sun will get you oout of your depressions!
Nonono....you misunderstand.....social interaction gets me out of depression, not sunlight. Why does everyone think that darkness causes depression all the time? I am also a night person....VERY active at night time. Which means that darkness = better. For me, I am happier at nighttime than I am during the daytime, especially when I am hanging out with somebody.

sun makes people happy. think of lying on grass or the beach with the sun shining. that´s great. sunlight rules!

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-23 01:31pm

salm wrote:sun makes people happy. think of lying on grass or the beach with the sun shining. that´s great. sunlight rules!

Grass = achoo!

Beach = half naked guys. Yummy.

But still, it really isn't the sun, it's the interaction with people. I am just as depressed in sunlight as I am in darkness if I am depressed.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2002-11-23 01:48pm

Actually sun does increase peoples mood. Its a built in instinct, just like their is a form of depression SAD (Sessonal Affected Depression or something like that) where people just get depressed if they're not showered with natural light (hence why there are full spectrum bulbs produced)

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-23 01:51pm

Larz wrote:Actually sun does increase peoples mood. Its a built in instinct, just like their is a form of depression SAD (Sessonal Affected Depression or something like that) where people just get depressed if they're not showered with natural light (hence why there are full spectrum bulbs produced)

Maybe so.....but I am usually most deopressed around the Halloween time, and am quite happy, in fact, suring the winter and when it's rainy...when there's really not that mush sun. *shrug* I guess I'm justa special case. Note: I am seeing my shrink in three days! YAY ^_^

Mike_6002 · Post by **Mike_6002** » 2002-11-23 01:53pm

verilon wrote:
Larz wrote:Actually sun does increase peoples mood. Its a built in instinct, just like their is a form of depression SAD (Sessonal Affected Depression or something like that) where people just get depressed if they're not showered with natural light (hence why there are full spectrum bulbs produced)
Maybe so.....but I am usually most deopressed around the Halloween time, and am quite happy, in fact, suring the winter and when it's rainy...when there's really not that mush sun. *shrug* I guess I'm justa special case. Note: I am seeing my shrink in three days! YAY ^_^

Here have a hug till then *hugs verilon*

Around Ontario just colds and flus, nothing special ti'll next summer (Damn West Nile Virus

)

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2002-11-23 03:25pm

It certainly is dark here in in the winter, but in the summer it's the opposite: the sun never goes down... Don't even mention the temperatures! In the summer it's always too warm (easily above 30 degrees celcius) and too cold in the winter (sometimes even below -20).