Winter Is Here: Slowing Down to Fight SAD
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Winter Is Here: Slowing Down to Fight SAD
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#2I assume HN has automatically turned the "SAD" in the title to "Sad", which is incorrect, as it's an acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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#3I 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.”
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#4I 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?
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#5CTRL+F “vitamin”… don’t forget your vitamin D supplements folks!
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#6Summer is HERE. Dancing in the sunshine, me!
Re: Winter Is Here: Slowing Down to Fight SAD
#7CTRL+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.
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#8It's worth noting (or maybe it isn't) that there there is scant evidence for SAD.
The confirmation bias is strong here maybe in me and others, the solutions are all dripping in snake oil.
It's really quite bizarre but amount of cold and darkness doesn't correlate well with low mood. Frankly I've not seen anyways provide an reasonable explanation for it.
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#9Summer is HERE. Dancing in the sunshine, me!
Can't blame you there! I'd settle for spring personally, hoping to avoid any 40 degrees Celsius weather next year.