Sun lamp? I might need to look into this
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My old roommate had a full spectrum light he kept in his desk. We don't get much sun, so it was to help compensate (for stuff like mental health and such)
Oh, man. I can't imagine living with no sun. I'm in Florida and this past "Winter" there was a full 7 days where it was overcast. I almost cried.
In most of Canada, winter days are short enough that many people get to the office before the sun is fully up, and leave work after it sets. Seasonal depression is a very real thing.
I get seasonal anxiety from the cold in winter
It's funny how people are. I don't think I can cope with the weather being hot all the time. Cold is fine, I can deal with that, but hot, ugh.
Where I live we don't really have any mechanism to lose heat. Other than open a window but then every insect on the planet comes inside. But I can just turn up my heating if I need warmth.
You can put more clothes on but you can’t take more off
Yeah the police that that as well.
Plus of course because I know it's cold here so I have cold weather clothing, I don't really have hot weather clothing. So when it is hot I still have to wear cold weather clothing just less off it.
where I live at winter you'll have like 2months where you go to the work while it's still dark and when you leave it's dark again
chills naked on a hot rock under the sunlamp
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The air purifiers and dehumidifier were the real game changers for me. I can breathe through my nose now!
Yeah I've only got one a few weeks ago and I'm obsessed with it now.
I live in England so I should have realized that the air is humid (It gets hot here, I swear), but it never really occurred to me before that moisture was the same as humidity.
I could practically live off the water it extracts from the air. Have no idea if that's good or bad for me, but it feels better
They are excellent for seasonal affective disorder. Basically, humans technically have a mild form of hibernation. Our modern lifestyle doesn't allow for that however. When you don't get enough sunlight, our body assumes it's time to bed down. This is experienced as an extended bout of apathy and tiredness, leading to depression.
A sunlamp has enough light, of the right spectrum, to help reset this system to summer mode.
Sounds interesting, you got something to read about that?
Not offhand, once I figured out what was happening and how to fix it, it became a fairly solved problem for me, about a decade back.
The NHS has a reasonable writeup on it. The hibernation theory is less proven, so tends not to come up in medical advice.
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/overview/
Can google around about blue light triggering melatonin suppression and the effect of chronically elevated melatonin and circadian rhythms if you want to learn more too.
The TLDR is ideally bright white or blue light at consistent time first thing in the morning to help your body regulate circadian rhythms.
Tell me more about this anti-depression sun lamp.
You turn it on and the depression goes away
Big pharma hate it.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/best-sad-light-therapy-lamps
I'm personally a bit skeptical of them, but I also don't know anything about it other than that they exist.
Can't say mine has changed by life, but using one sure beats weeks without feeling like the sun is real.