Imagine if you suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder

Imagine if you suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder

Imagine if you suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder. It is a mood disorder that hits those with normal mental health, causing depressive symptoms at the onset of winter. The days are shorter. You wake up to darkness, and go home in darkness. Those of us that work in-doors are likely never to see the sun for stretches of a week at a time. Symptoms can range from a lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, withdrawing from friends, family, and social activities to life ending anxiety. But winter is a tough season. It is cold, grey, and dark. People showing no signs of S.A.D. will lock themselves away in-doors, waiting out the season, not venturing out-doors unless it is absolutely necessary.

Now imagine everyone in the world suffered from S.A.D. What kind of a world would it be?

The Judas Syndrome offers its reader that very scenario, one hundred fold, trapped inside, while a nuclear winter rages. Seasonal Affective Disorder could hardly represent the angst and horror those lucky few survivors would suffer. Though many of the symptoms would apply, the idea that winter may never pass, that spring would never come, and that summer may only exist in your memory, allows us to coin a new disorder L.A.D. Life Affective Disorder.

Life Affective Disorder would encompass all of the above symptoms, one hundred fold. Thoughts of suicide would play on the most hardened of individuals. Those left to exist in this nightmarish realm alone would almost certainly parish by their own hands. The lucky few trapped with friends or family would fare much better, but for how long? With no end in sight and no ability to forecast an end to this winter, L.A.D. would be rampant in every home a survivor, or group of survivors was found.

So how did they do it, a group of teenagers, barely out of high school? How did they survive and thrive in this harsh new reality? It's teenagers they send to war. Teenagers are resilient. They are capable of change, and in an endless winter, perhaps change is their best defense.

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