PHOENIX (AZFamily) — If the First Alert Weather Days and the extreme heat are getting to you and your mental health, you’re not alone.
Doctors say the heat has a huge impact on our mental health, so Arizona’s Family spoke to a psychiatrist with Banner Health. Dr. Tyler Vestal calls this time period the “August blues.”
Summer is supposed to be a happy, joyful time, but in Phoenix it’s over 110 degrees, and Dr. Vestal says we can get reverse seasonal depression. We have to stay inside more, isolating from others, and we’re out of our normal routines…