How does light therapy help treat seasonal depression - Kelly Rohan
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Date: 2025-12-23
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akramsmarka
What if non depression is the illness This planet will advance in progress 5 centuries if more people experience SAD. We pathologise the exception because it terrifies us to self reflect. Maybe we're not sad enough. We will do anything to avoid confronting the peculiarity of our existence. Then we end up maintaining our habits, reinforcing the very systems that cause dispair. But a seasonal timeout, where we stop the cycle, stop feeding the machine with underpaid labour and obscure cultural rituals like elite sports and other distractions, then maybe we can actually make positive change for once. Pessimism isn't the problem, it's uncritical optimism, which manifests as nihilism in action. Just do, don't think, and the consequences don't matter. That sounds like a clinical disorder if there's ever been one.
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What if non depression is the illness This planet will advance in progress 5 centuries if more people experience SAD. We pathologise the exception because it terrifies us to self reflect. Maybe we're not sad enough. We will do anything to avoid confronting the peculiarity of our existence. Then we end up maintaining our habits, reinforcing the very systems that cause dispair. But a seasonal timeout, where we stop the cycle, stop feeding the machine with underpaid labour and obscure cultural rituals like elite sports and other distractions, then maybe we can actually make positive change for once. Pessimism isn't the problem, it's uncritical optimism, which manifests as nihilism in action. Just do, don't think, and the consequences don't matter. That sounds like a clinical disorder if there's ever been one.
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visulashka
Greetings from Southern Finland where we don't have much snow during winters and since we are above the 60th parallel north it gets quite devastatingly dark. We even had a live stream the other week when the sun decided to show itself for the first time in weeks. No snow or freezing temperatures to do any winter activities either. We eat D3-supplements and use light therapy but it doesn't help much. At least we have warm indoor swimming halls and saunas everywhere to keep us warm, but I cannot imagine life for example on Lofoten Islands north of the Arctic Circle, that also rarely get any snow during winters and they don't even have a sauna culture. That's mad.
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Greetings from Southern Finland where we don't have much snow during winters and since we are above the 60th parallel north it gets quite devastatingly dark. We even had a live stream the other week when the sun decided to show itself for the first time in weeks. No snow or freezing temperatures to do any winter activities either. We eat D3-supplements and use light therapy but it doesn't help much. At least we have warm indoor swimming halls and saunas everywhere to keep us warm, but I cannot imagine life for example on Lofoten Islands north of the Arctic Circle, that also rarely get any snow during winters and they don't even have a sauna culture. That's mad.
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shubmakes
Sometimes I feel like the more humanity researches about depression the more they get into it.
When people know what to tag this feeling - they are more likely to stay in it.
I personally don't believe in the feeling anything more than a temporary setback or sadness. The people who believe it to be bigger than it is - are the ones usually stuck in it. Because now they have an answer to this unknown mystery of sadness, which our brain hates.
Again, maybe my brain is incapable of this emotion that's why i've never felt it. But if so, I am blessed more than I like to think.
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Sometimes I feel like the more humanity researches about depression the more they get into it.
When people know what to tag this feeling - they are more likely to stay in it.
I personally don't believe in the feeling anything more than a temporary setback or sadness. The people who believe it to be bigger than it is - are the ones usually stuck in it. Because now they have an answer to this unknown mystery of sadness, which our brain hates.
Again, maybe my brain is incapable of this emotion that's why i've never felt it. But if so, I am blessed more than I like to think.
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CistudeSuisse
I have traditional chronic depression, but it gets WORSE during Fall and Winter.
Luminotherapy is the thing that keeps me afloat during the dark seasons.
It really helps and no secondary effects (sometimes a lil headhaches, but that's all.
There are even device that are made like a pair of glasses, you can move around while doing your light therapy. Very convenient.
I recommend people with SAD to test luminotherapy, it is not too expensive, is simple to use and no secondary effects.
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I have traditional chronic depression, but it gets WORSE during Fall and Winter.
Luminotherapy is the thing that keeps me afloat during the dark seasons.
It really helps and no secondary effects (sometimes a lil headhaches, but that's all.
There are even device that are made like a pair of glasses, you can move around while doing your light therapy. Very convenient.
I recommend people with SAD to test luminotherapy, it is not too expensive, is simple to use and no secondary effects.
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ElChicoBush
Is there an opposite version of SAD or something similar Personally, every time Fall arrives I start to feel incredibly better. But to a degree is hard to explain. Especially at evenings, I feel unusually exhilarated and excited about. just existing. It's weird to explain, but it's an intense feeling. It makes me feel good
It's been happening consistently every year around the exact same time lf the year, and I still don't know if this happens to other people of if is it normal,
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Is there an opposite version of SAD or something similar Personally, every time Fall arrives I start to feel incredibly better. But to a degree is hard to explain. Especially at evenings, I feel unusually exhilarated and excited about. just existing. It's weird to explain, but it's an intense feeling. It makes me feel good
It's been happening consistently every year around the exact same time lf the year, and I still don't know if this happens to other people of if is it normal,
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amrotaha3958
i live in a country where we in the wintertime only gets cloudy daylight 4-5 hours a day.
working in a closed office with no windows, im locked in during the time theres natural light.
i drive to work while its dark.
i work from home while its dark.
i dont think its possibly not to get your mood affected by that. well i certainly cant. the only ray of daylight i get are on sundays when im off. that is, if i have the energy to get up.
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i live in a country where we in the wintertime only gets cloudy daylight 4-5 hours a day.
working in a closed office with no windows, im locked in during the time theres natural light.
i drive to work while its dark.
i work from home while its dark.
i dont think its possibly not to get your mood affected by that. well i certainly cant. the only ray of daylight i get are on sundays when im off. that is, if i have the energy to get up.
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jessicav931
This sounds like me and its worse because I lived all my life in the caribbean until I moved to Europe. I arrived at the start of the summer and I could not get why people were so crazy about being outsie. Next year I was the first one chasing the long awaited sun. Making sport helped me, but now I am pregnant and I can't have the same intensity (running for hours, so I am turning crazy.
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This sounds like me and its worse because I lived all my life in the caribbean until I moved to Europe. I arrived at the start of the summer and I could not get why people were so crazy about being outsie. Next year I was the first one chasing the long awaited sun. Making sport helped me, but now I am pregnant and I can't have the same intensity (running for hours, so I am turning crazy.
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lfcbpro
One of the main problems with people understanding SAD is 'suicidal ideation'.
If you have never experienced suicidal thoughts, you have no concept of what they are, and the effects they can have on someone.
It is near impossible for someone who has never experienced suicidal thoughts to understand them and nearly as impossible for someone experiencing them to explain them.
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One of the main problems with people understanding SAD is 'suicidal ideation'.
If you have never experienced suicidal thoughts, you have no concept of what they are, and the effects they can have on someone.
It is near impossible for someone who has never experienced suicidal thoughts to understand them and nearly as impossible for someone experiencing them to explain them.
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Sacrifusion
What of it's our thermostats too
We spend the rest of the year at what we think is our optimal cooling temperature, then switch that over to what we consider our most optimal, lower warming.
What of we're meant to operate at higher temperatures (even sweat more often) and just conserve energy, not maintaining the same high rhythms when winter comes around
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What of it's our thermostats too
We spend the rest of the year at what we think is our optimal cooling temperature, then switch that over to what we consider our most optimal, lower warming.
What of we're meant to operate at higher temperatures (even sweat more often) and just conserve energy, not maintaining the same high rhythms when winter comes around
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phys3017
this is a sad day (21. 12. 25) only drought, risking health working in excessive heat, lack of sleep due to unending sunlight, exhausion, dehydration amd skin cancer to look forward to i wish one year was 1095. 75 days and i live in scotland! if i could get leave in the summer it would be iceland for me. if i could emegrate i would move to greenland.
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this is a sad day (21. 12. 25) only drought, risking health working in excessive heat, lack of sleep due to unending sunlight, exhausion, dehydration amd skin cancer to look forward to i wish one year was 1095. 75 days and i live in scotland! if i could get leave in the summer it would be iceland for me. if i could emegrate i would move to greenland.
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theanimalkeaper
Im diagnosed with reverse SAD (the opposite) for me it gets the worst from April to July
Hardly anyone with SAD gets it in spring/summer. It’s really hard as it’s very stigmatised and people think you are just moaning they have very little empathy for it. It’s also very poorly researched and less resources are available.
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Im diagnosed with reverse SAD (the opposite) for me it gets the worst from April to July
Hardly anyone with SAD gets it in spring/summer. It’s really hard as it’s very stigmatised and people think you are just moaning they have very little empathy for it. It’s also very poorly researched and less resources are available.
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EconInsightHub
A light therapy box mimics outdoor light. It's thought that this type of light may cause a chemical change in the brain that lifts your mood and eases other symptoms of SAD, such as being tired most of the time and sleeping too much. Generally, the light box should: Provide an exposure to 10, 000 lux of light
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A light therapy box mimics outdoor light. It's thought that this type of light may cause a chemical change in the brain that lifts your mood and eases other symptoms of SAD, such as being tired most of the time and sleeping too much. Generally, the light box should: Provide an exposure to 10, 000 lux of light
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Hallows4
What about populations that live above the Arctic Circle How do their Circadian Rhythms and instances of S. A. D. /seasonal depression compare with populations further south What adaptations - both biological and cultural - have they developed to cope with potential problems during months of darkness
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What about populations that live above the Arctic Circle How do their Circadian Rhythms and instances of S. A. D. /seasonal depression compare with populations further south What adaptations - both biological and cultural - have they developed to cope with potential problems during months of darkness
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penguin902
00: 52 1% yet everyone tries to claim this smh meanwhile the winter is enjoyable in so many ways but everyone wants to play the tragic main character victim online and then the online mass hysterias spills into the real world again. same thing happened with gender dysphoria last decade.
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00: 52 1% yet everyone tries to claim this smh meanwhile the winter is enjoyable in so many ways but everyone wants to play the tragic main character victim online and then the online mass hysterias spills into the real world again. same thing happened with gender dysphoria last decade.
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1980rlquinn
I mean, you open the video with examples of how animal behavior changes in winter. I'm pretty sure S. A. D. is caused by artificially forcing 100% productivity behavior year round when we have millions of years of evolution telling us to behave differently.
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I mean, you open the video with examples of how animal behavior changes in winter. I'm pretty sure S. A. D. is caused by artificially forcing 100% productivity behavior year round when we have millions of years of evolution telling us to behave differently.
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MariahKigozi
i live in Sweden and this is normal SAD is normal I have it every new season summer and winter is the worst.
But I have learned lighting candles is so relaxing and gives a weard slow safe aurora in those sad, depression moments. Try it
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i live in Sweden and this is normal SAD is normal I have it every new season summer and winter is the worst.
But I have learned lighting candles is so relaxing and gives a weard slow safe aurora in those sad, depression moments. Try it
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basilsajeev7151
I think pleasures and pains would be equal in a person's life. More physical pain => more mental pleasure. More physical pleasure => more mental pain. In winter, lack of physical activities could be reducing happy hormones in brain.
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I think pleasures and pains would be equal in a person's life. More physical pain => more mental pleasure. More physical pleasure => more mental pain. In winter, lack of physical activities could be reducing happy hormones in brain.
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chrischant
Blasting myself with 10000 lumen lamp at 4pm actually helps when I start to feel lethargic. Automatic lights that start to turn on an hour before I usually wake up also help with getting up and not wanting to go back to sleep
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Blasting myself with 10000 lumen lamp at 4pm actually helps when I start to feel lethargic. Automatic lights that start to turn on an hour before I usually wake up also help with getting up and not wanting to go back to sleep
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ribbonfly
Winter gets a bad reputation but it is really beautiful. A time of rest and slowing down. In the USA where I live you don't stop working no matter the season so all the cold, snow and darkness seem like a hinderance.
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Winter gets a bad reputation but it is really beautiful. A time of rest and slowing down. In the USA where I live you don't stop working no matter the season so all the cold, snow and darkness seem like a hinderance.
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kaiseramadeus233
Existing depresses me. I don't know why I exist, nor did I ask for this. My mother could have aborted me at 2 months in the womb, but at 20 years old, apparently I don't have the ability to decide my own life
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Existing depresses me. I don't know why I exist, nor did I ask for this. My mother could have aborted me at 2 months in the womb, but at 20 years old, apparently I don't have the ability to decide my own life
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