Priya Jimmy, M.D. with a specialty in Internal Medicine shared in the Edwards Elmhurst Healthy Driven blog that daylight savings time, or setting the clocks back an hour in the fall or forward an hour in the spring, has its pros and cons.

In the fall, the promise of an extra hour of sleep can be glorious. The earlier sunset — sometimes before you even get home from work — can be depressing.

Sometimes fall and winter bring more than increased hours of darkness. People with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which peaks in the fall and winter months, experience symptoms of depression, anxiety and other struggles connected with a possible imbalance of melatonin and serotonin — two chemicals that regulate a person’s sleep cycle, energy level and mood.

As for the fall time change — who’s looked forward to the extra hour of sleep only to wake up automatically at your usual time and not spend the extra hour resting? Read more