... let there be light!
Hallelujah! My (happy) SAD-light arrived yesterday and I had my first session this morning. Yahoo!
OK, so I'm not feeling the effects yet, (everything i've read says that it takes at least a couple of days), but doing my morning writing and drinking my coffee in the glow of this therapeutic florescent sunlight? I can see how it might work. I got a little psychological lift feeling that fake sun for just 30 minutes. And maybe that's just a placebo effect and maybe it's just hope talking, but given the way the winter in Joisey kicks my ass, I'll take what I can get.
I'll post on how it goes in the coming days/weeks; I know I have a few regular readers who go through similar winter depressions/hibernations and I'm happy to be the SAD-light guinea pig.
Remember the TV show Northern Exposure---where the NY Doctor gets trapped in a little Alaskan town? They had an episode about using these lights during the winter long dark. One of the women finds herself responding to the light in a manic frenzy and sort of gets addicted to it. They have to have an intersession for her---very funny.
Posted by: Will | December 26, 2007 at 03:52 PM
Interesting. I've heard about these lights for years but had never actually seen one. I'll be curious to hear what kind of difference it makes for you over the course of the winter. And I know you'll completely understand when I say that as we were hitting 101 to head home yesterday--on a beautiful, cloudless day--I said, "What a gorgeous day. That's why living in California is so great...the WEATHER." What I should have said is that living in POCKETS of California is great for that reason...'cause lord knows, growing up where I did in the NW corner, I could have seriously used one of these lights. :)
Posted by: Marilyn | December 10, 2007 at 08:31 AM