The End of Daylight Savings

The end of Daylight Savings is upon us again, and we are all starting to gear up for winter in the Northern Hemisphere, even in California’s Bay Area, which is not famous for cold, dark winters, to say the least. Yet going on Daylight Savings in the spring, and coming off it in the fall does cause real disruption and …

Impact of Seasonal Change: Spring Is Coming! Are You Ready?

Surviving the time changes from Standard to Daylight Savings and back again, can be a challenge, and in our practice at Gateway Psychiatric, we always see an uptick in the numbers of people reporting sleep disruption and/or hypomania during the Northern Hemisphere spring. At the beginning of Spring and Fall,  in higher latitudes both North and South, the length of …