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Congratulations， March， April and May babies，you score high on the hyperthymia① scale — which is actually good. Hyperthymia is general optimism— the ability to see every down as a prelude② to an up，every market crash as a run-up③ to a boom. But that comes at a price： spring babies are also more susceptible to the precise opposite of hyperthymia： clinical depression. Ground zero for the condition —according to a massive study of 58，000 subjects in the U.K. in 2012 — is among people born in May. November babies have the lowest depression rates.
It's mostly glad tidings④ for June， July and August babies. No SAD（Abbreviation for seasonal affective disorder⑤： a medical condition in which a person does not have much energy and enthusiasm during the winter because of the reduced period of natural light. ） for you — at least nothing caused by the light levels after your birth， though there may be some impact from mom having carried you in December， January and February. Summer babies have some of the same hyperthymic characteristics as spring babies， but that can be offset by cyclothymia — rapid cycling between high and low moods. Still，that's probably not a warning sign of bipolar disorder⑥； bipolar diagnoses are lowest among babies born in August.
For people who believe in astrology （we've mentioned that it's hooey， right？） the general equanimity of fall babies seems to provide evidence that at least the sign of Libra— the well-balanced scales — has something going for it. It doesn't of course， but whether the cause is the bountiful nutrients available at harvest time， or the fact that the long nights and seasonal illness of winter have not yet descended⑦， people born in fall not only enjoy low levels of depression，but are similarly less likely to develop bipolar disorder. The one glitch⑧in the autumn-born： they do have a tendency to irritability⑨.
Buckle up，babies，things could get rough. Among the challenges facing people with winter birthdates are higher levels of schizophrenia⑩， bipolar disorder， SAD and depression. That's a nasty handful， but there are a few compensations： winter babies are less irritable than those born in fall. What's more， according to an admittedly small 2015 study of 300 celebrities， January and February are the right months to be born if you want to be famous since those months correlate with creativity and imaginative problem-solving.
Congratulations， March， April and May babies，you score high on the hyperthymia① scale — which is actually good. Hyperthymia is general optimism— the ability to see every down as a prelude② to an up，every market crash as a run-up③ to a boom. But that comes at a price： spring babies are also more susceptible to the precise opposite of hyperthymia： clinical depression. Ground zero for the condition —according to a massive study of 58，000 subjects in the U.K. in 2012 — is among people born in May. November babies have the lowest depression rates.
It's mostly glad tidings④ for June， July and August babies. No SAD（Abbreviation for seasonal affective disorder⑤： a medical condition in which a person does not have much energy and enthusiasm during the winter because of the reduced period of natural light. ） for you — at least nothing caused by the light levels after your birth， though there may be some impact from mom having carried you in December， January and February. Summer babies have some of the same hyperthymic characteristics as spring babies， but that can be offset by cyclothymia — rapid cycling between high and low moods. Still，that's probably not a warning sign of bipolar disorder⑥； bipolar diagnoses are lowest among babies born in August.
For people who believe in astrology （we've mentioned that it's hooey， right？） the general equanimity of fall babies seems to provide evidence that at least the sign of Libra— the well-balanced scales — has something going for it. It doesn't of course， but whether the cause is the bountiful nutrients available at harvest time， or the fact that the long nights and seasonal illness of winter have not yet descended⑦， people born in fall not only enjoy low levels of depression，but are similarly less likely to develop bipolar disorder. The one glitch⑧in the autumn-born： they do have a tendency to irritability⑨.
Buckle up，babies，things could get rough. Among the challenges facing people with winter birthdates are higher levels of schizophrenia⑩， bipolar disorder， SAD and depression. That's a nasty handful， but there are a few compensations： winter babies are less irritable than those born in fall. What's more， according to an admittedly small 2015 study of 300 celebrities， January and February are the right months to be born if you want to be famous since those months correlate with creativity and imaginative problem-solving.