From what I understand, the seasonal affective disorder () you, and the students around you, may be experiencing is a form of depression triggered by a lack of sunlight during the fall and winter months.

Source: https://www.mcgilltribune.com/student-life/ask-ainsley-managing-the-winter-blues-01-17-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ask-ainsley-managing-the-winter-blues-01-17-2022

In it, they describe affective maintenance as a set of practices that "includes disqualifications of counterarguments, populist appeals that reorient emergent publics and deferrals and delegations to expert knowledge."

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-montreal-big-flush-good-message.html

Only a faith that is both rational and affective will lead us out of gender warfare and back to embracing “the living mystery of maternity and of the bridal love that makes maternity possible.”

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/three-things-benedict-xvi-taught-me-about-our-lady

“The film deals with a subject that questions us all: How the love we receive in our childhood conditions our affective bonds in adulthood,” says Virginia Bogliolo, who produces at Uruguay’s Tarkiofilm, alongside Juan Álvarez Neme of Argentina’s Un Puma.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/film/festivals/san-sebastian-co-production-forum-1235695447/

We mention this one not because it’s a sensational deal, but because this is just about the time of year people consider buying a wake-up alarm clock to combat seasonal affective disorder.

Source: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-black-friday-deals-uk-2023