Is It Seasonal Depression Or Just The Winter Blues? How To Tell Healthpluser

While seasonal depression is a clinical diagnosis, a subsyndromal type of SAD with milder symptoms called S-SAD, or “the winter blues,” is more common. For example, 15% of the Canadian population and 20% of the UK population experiences the winter blues, while only 2% to 6% and 2% experience SAD in Canada and the UK, respectively.