This is how cold water makes you feel!
Image: Ian Wood
ELAINE K HOWLEY
For roughly seven years, the young woman named Sarah who was described in a 2018 case study published in the British Medical Journal had struggled with major depressive disorder. She was diagnosed at age 17 – though she’d been experiencing symptoms long before that – and by the time she was 24, she had tried various different anti-depressant drugs. These largely failed to control her condition and left her with unwanted side effects.