Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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Does anyone else feel that lack of sun effects your mood? I can't stand long periods of overcast weather. And I'm from colorado, I can deal with bad weather. Foot of snow, who cares? that just makes the riding conditions better. But I need to see some sun. But this last week it has been overcast every day, no snow, just cloudy. That almost never happens here, and I think it's really effecting my mood.
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It changed my life. I use it all year round. It is nothing unusual here for us to go days without sunshine and that is all it takes to affect my mood negatively.
Should have taken my pdoc's advice years ago. (I hate advice)
It really depends on my mood, if I'm kinda low-key I hate really sunny days but I can't take alot of cloudy/rainy days in a row either (say a week or more) and too many sunny days really agitate me unless I'm in a high-energy phase.
I guess it's good that I live in New England!! :)
Everyday my life if filled with sun, day in and day out. The whole winter here in the desert of Southern Calif., is about two weeks of rain. Then it is back to sun.
I wonder if they make an overcast cloudy lamp?
If they were soft and billowy it would not be bad but they are low and dark.
Eventually, I had to move to a sunny state where winters are much easier on my mental health.