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Seasonal Affective Disorder
Hopalong:
You too, Bones? Does yours ease up after a while too?
I know that will happen. Especially if I keep up the a.m. walks...
Thanks Tupp. It's not ghastly, but is real. I'm always surprised
by it but am a bit better at remembering...this too shall pass.
It really is physical (meaning, brain chemistry from the light change)
but also, I know what's coming (hellidays). So there's an emotional
element as well.
Skep, your great images remind me that one new element in my
life will make this winter MUCH cozier. LB's idea of paradise is very
simple: my lap. She's 20 pounds of love, and she's a furnace. I'll
stick my legs on the coffee table and get into a good slouch and haul
her up and she plasters herself all over my torso and goes to sleep.
I am a human dog bed. But in winter? It'll be sweet...
Oh Boat. Wish we could both sail south when the cold comes.
I'm sorry your summer slipped by you. I hope the next one will be
different. It will be... (Sunglasses would defeat the SAD lights, they
work by having light enter the retina. I can still walk outdoors...)
hugs to all, cheers me right up just to check in,
Hops
lighter:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on August 27, 2013, 07:24:03 AM --- (Sunglasses would defeat the SAD lights, they
work by having light enter the retina. I can still walk outdoors...)
Hops
--- End quote ---
Ok, I did not know that, Hops.
But did they help when you were using them? Was it drastic helpful?
If they aren't safe, you can't use them, but darnit, if they really help it would be so hard not to!
Lighter
Hopalong:
Yup, they absolutely work.
The light boxes were just amazing.
Pour that light into your eyes (sideways, avoiding frontal staring at it) for, say, 20 min. every morning...
just amazing.
It's like a stimulant without the jitters.
Totally real and feelable and noticeable mood changer.
I loved it!
But then...began to think about vision (have a friend w/degrading eyes) and starting searching,
and found a lot of contradictory stuff about what long-term use of the light boxes could do. Quit.
If I can find SURE info, objective and researched, that a specific type of bulb (not from the manufacturers
who are all selling THEIR spectrum of therapeutic light) is truly zero threat to vision, long-term, I'd be
plugged back in in a flash.
They're used heavily in Nordic countries by loads of people, during winter.
I have a Norwegian friend so I'll try to get info from her on what the consensus is there.
hugs
Hops
Hopalong:
...and, I am very tempted by this one: http://www.sunnexbiotech.com/noframes/sad.html
Desk-top model, I think.
Sticker shock.
:shock:
Hops
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on August 27, 2013, 07:24:03 AM ---You too, Bones? Does yours ease up after a while too?
I know that will happen. Especially if I keep up the a.m. walks...
Thanks Tupp. It's not ghastly, but is real. I'm always surprised
by it but am a bit better at remembering...this too shall pass.
It really is physical (meaning, brain chemistry from the light change)
but also, I know what's coming (hellidays). So there's an emotional
element as well.
Skep, your great images remind me that one new element in my
life will make this winter MUCH cozier. LB's idea of paradise is very
simple: my lap. She's 20 pounds of love, and she's a furnace. I'll
stick my legs on the coffee table and get into a good slouch and haul
her up and she plasters herself all over my torso and goes to sleep.
I am a human dog bed. But in winter? It'll be sweet...
Oh Boat. Wish we could both sail south when the cold comes.
I'm sorry your summer slipped by you. I hope the next one will be
different. It will be... (Sunglasses would defeat the SAD lights, they
work by having light enter the retina. I can still walk outdoors...)
hugs to all, cheers me right up just to check in,
Hops
--- End quote ---
Oh yes. And then when the Hellidays are factored in....UGH!!!! :P
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