bright light therapy
17 Dec 2009 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneJust a note about plebefic headers: I've run out! And I'm afraid that I can't go spelunking again until I have finished my Yuletide draft. Don't fear, they will return within the week, since the deadline is on Sunday (*types furiously!*).
Last Sunday I got a light box for Channukah (this is what it looks like). This has been recommended to me, in fact, since before I moved to Finland, since I suffer rather severely from seasonal affective disorder. They are expensive, though: ifmorningfine hadn't been there with her Plussa-bonus card to give us the advertised discount at Anttila, it would have cost well over 100€, instead of just €99. I have been keeping almost to the 2-hour-a-day limit, so far. My dog seems to be enjoying the lamp as well. I thought he might want to move out of its way - it provides about a hundred times the light of a standard indoor bulb - but instead he turns his face toward it while he snoozes.
My wife,waxjism, who is my exact opposite in all matters of climate, detesting the sun while I seek it out, craving cold while I crave warmth, hates it. She sat in it an hour the first day (it's aimed at my computer chair, and hers is on the other side of mine), groaning, complaining, and trying to shield her face, and then claimed that it gave her a horrible headache. (The last two days she has slept through it.) I, on the other hand, am extremely reluctant to turn it off. Even with the sky clear outside and the ground snowy to diffuse and reflect the light, the difference is like plunging into a cave! It's probably no lighter outside now than it would be at sunset in summertime (which would of course occur around 11 pm).
Last Sunday I got a light box for Channukah (this is what it looks like). This has been recommended to me, in fact, since before I moved to Finland, since I suffer rather severely from seasonal affective disorder. They are expensive, though: if
morningfine hadn't been there with her Plussa-bonus card to give us the advertised discount at Anttila, it would have cost well over 100€, instead of just €99. I have been keeping almost to the 2-hour-a-day limit, so far. My dog seems to be enjoying the lamp as well. I thought he might want to move out of its way - it provides about a hundred times the light of a standard indoor bulb - but instead he turns his face toward it while he snoozes. My wife,
waxjism, who is my exact opposite in all matters of climate, detesting the sun while I seek it out, craving cold while I crave warmth, hates it. She sat in it an hour the first day (it's aimed at my computer chair, and hers is on the other side of mine), groaning, complaining, and trying to shield her face, and then claimed that it gave her a horrible headache. (The last two days she has slept through it.) I, on the other hand, am extremely reluctant to turn it off. Even with the sky clear outside and the ground snowy to diffuse and reflect the light, the difference is like plunging into a cave! It's probably no lighter outside now than it would be at sunset in summertime (which would of course occur around 11 pm).
