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Q: How to avoid the winter depression?
This winter will be my third in China. I made it through the first two fairly unscathed but this time I'm really not looking forward to the next 4 or 5 months being so cold and depressing. Anyone have any good remedies? Advice?
Stay home at night. Stay out of the bars and restos.
Cook dinner every night with a girlfriend (or boyfriend), pop open a bottle of wine, listen to some jazz and have a conversation with your partner when you sit down to dinner. After dinner, wash up, watch a movie together, go to bed early and have some intimate time under the warm sheets before you succumb to the sand man.
Wake up the following morning, a quick shag, a shower, shave, go to work, work, return home and do it all over again. It never gets old, believe me.
That should get you through the winter. It does me.
TedDBayer:
try shag, shi*, shag, shave, shag, shower, shag, shove of for work, shag, he'd never notice winter
Just in practical terms, keep warm. Increase the dose of Vitamin C and Vitamin B. Add some pure chocolate in your diet. If things become really depressing, buy a little sunlamp from taobao. Avoid hangovers and the like. Re Red Fox above, not bad advice at all.
Cover your apartment floor in sand. Drink cocktails, have an indoor BBQ. Grow a palm tree in your house. Wear flowery shirts.
Learn to enjoy the cold dark part of the year. Is there a place you can go swimming in cold cold water? There are lots of things that are possible because it is not hot outside.
Enjoy the colors of leaves falling off trees, look forward to spring.
We are inclined to stay inside more these darker colder months, but try to get out in the daytime more to get some light. Another huge booster in battling seasonal depression is good ole fashioned exercise.
Make a plan to go some place tropical during Spring Festival. Ideally a place difficult for Chinese to get a visa to 
move to the south, seriously, I don't like the cold weather either, I feel like to move to the south every time when it comes to the time of the year. Just can't make up my mind so far.
I can't remember what the condition is called, but shorter days and less sunlight strength cause your body to produce less vitamin D. This causes fatigue and depression, some people are chronic. The treatment at home is a light box, basically florescent lights in the natural light spectrum. Try taking vitamin D. Spend some time naked on a beach in Thailand or Philippines with 6 massage girls.
keep warm and join some activities to be companied by people.
