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I have lived with this since before there was a name for it.
It starts now. I have insomnia but I want to sleep in the day.
I have brain fog, I feel like lead and I an sensitive to cold.
I've run into some of these SADD threads on the Seattle/Portland forums and they were most interesting and informative. You may want to check those out as well.
I left Minnesota as a victim of SADD, and the rare days it clouds up here in the desert, I'm flung right back to my days of trying to cope with it when I lived in a cloudy area of the country, and I wonder how on earth did I survive 43 years up there in the winter time!
From those informative posts on the abovementioned forums, I realize now
there are ways of coping with it or minimizing the discomfort. Whether those methods actually work, I can't say.
FYI, it's SAD, not SADD. It stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder. Just one D. SADD is Students Against Drunk Driving (or Drivers).
The Mayo Clinic has a page explaining what a lightbox is, and doesn't try to push them on people or dissuade you from them. It's just a general information page, and seems to be pretty informative, without being preachy or advertiserish http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sea...atment/DN00013
Edited to get the link to start on page 1 of the 2-page article
I used to use a full spectrum daylight lamp and it did help.
I also find that dark days are affecting me more as I get older.
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