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A bright, lingering summer sunset over the Columbia River, illustrating the long daylight hours linked to summer-pattern seasonal affective disorder.

Summer SAD Is Real. Here's How It Differs From Winter Depression

Summer-pattern seasonal affective disorder is the lesser-known, agitated opposite of winter depression -- real enough for NIMH's diagnostic criteria, but still short on answers about its cause.

Health  · 20 Jul 2026, 19:33  · Sara Lindqvist
A bottle of melatonin dietary supplement tablets on a US pharmacy shelf.

Why American Melatonin Comes in 10 Times the Dose Most of Europe Allows

A bottle of melatonin in an American drugstore can pack five to ten milligrams; the same supplement in France is capped under two. The regulatory gap has real consequences for how families use -- and mis-store -- a hormone most people assume is harmless.

Health  · 17 Jul 2026, 04:17  · Sara Lindqvist