• secretlife said on Oct 04, 2008....

  back about 10 or 12 yrs ago, one of my good friends brought one of those lights into the office in October and said she suffered from SAD..
   
  it really did seem to help her....to me it just looked like added light.
   
  i say if it works, go for it.
   
  i know winter's coming, but i do love fall and i want to enjoy it- shorter days and all!

• diabolicdame said on Oct 04, 2008....

  Well theres too much sunshine here!! I'd love to split it with you!! Infact the way its been getting hotter, I'd pay to have some heat taken off! (Oh wait, I already pay via the AC).. I hope the lights work for you.. I'll try sending over some sun from here..   :-)

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Oct 04, 2008....

  
  bookmarking to make a better comment later...lol am brain dead now...have to hit covers and head to dreamland in 10 minutes...
  
  goodnight ladies!
  
  joanna ~
  
  
  

• cuppajava said on Oct 04, 2008....

  Hi - I am sorry to hear that you are affected by this.I had no idea.My dear friend Pusscat also suffers with the same thing.She is in the UK,and I know full well how it affects her.I have done quite a bit of research on it too,to try and gain a better understanding of it.I am glad that you have found out about the light,and i do hope that they work for you.Please keep us posted  

• mobil said on Oct 04, 2008....

  The lack of sunlight in the winter never bothered me till I got older, it doesn't depress me, but it is a bummer to not be able to go sit in the back yard till ten o'clock at nite.
   
  I remember seeing those lights on the TV show Northern Exposure, they wore them on their heads like a hat with the light coming down over their eyes.
   
  Here is it dark just after four o'clock in the afternoon during winter and it doesn't get light till about eight am. That's too much dark, but other than going down under I don't know of a cure for it.

• quietone said on Oct 04, 2008....

  secret ~ I am going to try them.  what the heck, it can't hurt thats for sure.  and the are also supposed to be more energy efficient!  It will be like sitting at the seaside minus all the fun stuff! LOL

  diabolic ~ to tell ya the truth, I don't have a clue where you live, but I do know it isn't near me!  LOL and I'd be glad to take some of the sunshine but you can keep that hot dry/humid heat

  paper ~ night night my dear friend. 

  cuppa ~ I think it does affect me but not a lot, it is more like I just hate winter period... sun or darkness.  I think the lights will be nice to have though.

  mobil ~ well go figure... lights on their heads and where was Norther Exposure taken place?? Did they wear square glasses too??  LOL  It gets dark here about 4pm too but gets light about 7 or so I think. 

• skald said on Oct 04, 2008....

  The lack of sunshine in the winter does not bother me but when it gets to mid January I love the light. I saw the daylight first at January 20th and that is maybe why I love the late January light. This short days blues that many people get is not so great here as in some countries. It has been researched and they think that we as a nation have adopted our selves through more than thousand years in this country to survive this.till there are people here that get very depressed during the winter.  

• quietone said on Oct 04, 2008....

  skald ~ I think being surrounded by the sea has a lot to do with how people feel also.  If I lived near the ocean in the winter, I wouldn't care that the days were shorter... I would also look forward to seeing your northern lights in the sky.  :)

• mobil said on Oct 04, 2008....

  Alaska

• skald said on Oct 04, 2008....

  Oh Quiet.  To see them I must remember to go out of the house. lol ´They are wonderful so is the moon and the stars. 

• gingersoul said on Oct 04, 2008....

  Quiet.....i kind like now the days are getting shorter and night longer....
  Here in Texas days are still too hot for my like though...its Fall for goodness sake!
  So seeing the days shorter reminds that indeed IS the season of fall...
  
  I am sorry you are so affected by this though....Secret had a "bright" idea..lol..
  Those lamps are famous for curing depression due to lack of natural light..
  
  Hope they will work fo you..{hugs}
  

• Lucytorial said on Oct 04, 2008....

  I've heard of that condition before, it makes sense to buy those lights... I hope they work for you.
   
  I understand though that moods can be effected by particular weather features.  here in the monsoon people get depressed when it rains for weeks non stop.. seriously I think the longest period we had with rain was about 18 days, it did not stop, heavy fat rain... depressing for sure.

• pusscat said on Oct 05, 2008....

  quietone - one thing I just wanted to make you aware of is when the use of the lights can have a detrimental affect.
  
  Rather than have those bulbs around my house I have a 'Lightbox'.  Admitedly it was £110 (UK) 10 years ago but I have only had to replace one bulb so far!
  
  It looks a little like a wooden speaker off a stereo with a dimpled plastic, opaque cover at the front.  There are 5 18" bulbs in there.  I only put it on for about half an hour in the morning on my desk at work as, if I were to use it later in the day my seretonin levels may remain too high for me to relax then sleep at night.  I use this between mid Oct and mid Apr.  It really does work :-)
  
  Note to self - get light box from under bed and clear 2 inches of dust off :-)
  

• quietone said on Oct 05, 2008....

  mobil ~ Alaska = Palin....... need I say more?  hahaha

  ginger ~ I have been in TX once San An.  and it was way way too hot and humid there for me.  I'd be depressed just staying inside all the time due to the heat!  I am ordering those bubls today!

  Lucy ~ yes when I lived out in the N.West (washington state) It rains a lot there too in the winter months.. dark dreary and cold.. a lot ofpeople got SAD out there too.  I am ordering those lights today

  pusscat ~ I saw those boxes on the link where I am ordering the light bulbs.  I have a light by my recliner like a reading light/lamp so I will put one in there when I am on my computer or watching tv.  I will remember about the sleeping so not to use it later at night..... thanks for that tip!

   

• queenparanoia said on Oct 06, 2008....

  yeah i get those too....

• quietone said on Oct 06, 2008....

  queenie ~ do you use them?  I just ordered a dozen yesterday.  They should be here by Wednesday.  :) 

• queenparanoia said on Oct 06, 2008....

  oh no... i deal with my depression alone... but dont worry i'm okay... ;-)

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