We change clocks back one hour Sat night / Sun morning
 

Hi, Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend.

I will be coming home in the dark from work.
The light from the son feels strange during the winter months.

M


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We will have long dark nights. This could cause some people to have Seasonal affective disorder. (SAD)

It has to do with not getting enough sunlight. I've seen these LED(Light Emitting Diodes) lights that people can shine toward their eye's to help with this.

Has anyone used the LED therapy for SAD? BF:hug::hug::hug:

Hi, Steve,

I had not thought of the LED lights before.

Google scholar has some studies of LED lights working for SAD.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/7/38/

M

I've seen some catalogs that have had these LED lights for SAD. Some of these lights had around 200 small LED lights displaying a brilliant white light for people to treat themselves with.

This does not mean in any way to look at these lights directly. That could probably cause blindness,but to have these lights shining in front of the person for a period of time could help with not seeing sunlight for very long during the winter.

Just a thought. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Steve,

That would be so cool.
Mari

I have on my lamp already with shorter daylight, it flare about ten days ago. I don't think it's an LED but a lamp on a post with an arm coming out. I thought it had some kind of quartz bulb. I didn't know about LED..

I hate the season disorder! Love the extra hour to just lay in bed.

Blue light therapy
 

Philips makes one. I have one. My problem is sitting still long enough for it to be effective! LOL. The light goes across your face so you don't look directly into it. I put mine off to my right. It seems to help. I can't recall how much it was, I think around $100 plus or minus. I think it helps. Of course the more regularly one uses it the more effective it is.

There is also supposedly a light bulb that is made that is good
for this too.

I don't know which one anymore. I used to because I would
buy them. My son Devin needed it in his bedroom.


Donna :hug::grouphug:

I think this lamp is a Phillips. I would like another one to flood the room, dd hates it glares in her eyes. We have a ceiling fan and if the soft bulbs would do the job would be great!

I liked the extra hour, I had to work , paper work on the computer for work all that morning.

Be careful
 

I have a huge sun box-type bulb that puts out 10,000 lux.

Be careful, ya'll.
When I used the light, I got anxious after a few days and was heading into a mixed state before I figured it out and stopped it.
Use it in the AFTERNOON and put it ABOVE your heads/eyes -- we worked this out in a thread years ago.


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I received two catalogs in the mail on Saturday. They had a interesting visor that you could where for SAD.

A light weight object can be worn on the head,and has a visor like a baseball cap. Under the visor there are three white,and three red LEDS that emit daylight spectrum light in the amount recommended by the National Institute of Health.

I thought that it was clever.

In another catalog,there is a devise that you can rool over your Prescription bottle information,and eliminate your information,and what's in the your Proscription. That's for any information that you don't want to share. BF:hug::hug::hug:

I Like both those Steve thanks for sharing.
Donna :hug::grouphug: