Sam “speaking”.

Here it is. The typically bloated, typically belated and atypically... tinted 54th episode of the FF podcast.

The question I have for Norman E. Rosenthal et al. is... was it decided first that the acronym would be "SAD", the constituent terms retrospectively conceived? Or was the end result a quirk of fate? I'll concede that very little contortion or contrivance would have been required - as labels go, it's quite spot on. But still... I'm reluctant to believe that there wasn't SOME finagling. They knew it would end with "Disorder" and then someone chirped up with "Season" or "Seasonal". Find a cheeky and appropriate "A" and hey, presto, you've got "SAD".

Anyway, yeah, these darker days are rotten, aren't they? Once, I loved them. As a child and as a moody teenager. Now I crave the light li ...