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Trying to get 1h outside / day does it for me - usually using the commute for it, running or cycling to work.
Dont forget, we were optimized for millions of years for spending our time outside. Dont run fully outside your specifications people ;)
I assume HN has automatically turned the "SAD" in the title to "Sad", which is incorrect, as it's an acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Yeah, looks like it. Is there a way around that for the future?
I assume HN has automatically turned the "SAD" in the title to "Sad", which is incorrect, as it's an acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Yeah, looks like it. Is there a way around that for the future?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, looks like it. Is there a way around that for the future?
Do you have an edit button? You may be able to correct it.
I came across this a while back, and it seems like it might be worth a try: “LED lighting is improving rapidly. You can install very bright lights for treating seasonal affective disorder (SAD) easily and inexpensively. Common sense says that will be more effective than commercial SAD lights that are much less bright. My experience confirms this.” https://meaningness.com/sad-light-led-lux
CTRL+F “vitamin”… don’t forget your vitamin D supplements folks!
YMMV but I've had limited benefits from taking vitamin D over winter personally, at least from a mental health perspective. Slowing down and trying to reduce the self-induced mental pressure addresses the cause for me.
That's like trying to stop breathing for me. Getting out and exercising when I least feel like it is the only thing that has helped me. But clearing that hurdle isn't always easy.
> The real issue is that if I can’t hit some pre-conceived level of commitment and results that my perfectionism convinces me that I can hit, I don’t put the effort it.
> The instant gratification serves another purpose though. It prevents me from slowing down.
Fighting this is key.
Even completely euthymic, this is still a battle, perhaps THE battle I would pick.
In case this wasn't meant to be a tongue-in-cheek statement: perfectly.