Seasonal Affective Disorder Support Group
Seasonal affective disorder, also known as S.A.D., winter depression or the winter blues is an affective, or mood, disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer. The condition in the summer is often referred to as Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder. Seasonal mood...
There are several out there (Earthpulse, Raoki, Bemer, etc.). I have used light-box therapy, but have not found it to be very effective (even at 10,000 lux). I theorize that the electromagnet pulse(s) of the sun is a large portion of why I am not depressed in the summer. I also believe that being inside more, hence being subjected to more "dirty" electromagnetism (from household electrical wiring) exacerbates my condition in the winter. From what I have read, most of the manmade electromagnetism sources are higher than what natural background electromagnetism existed for most of human evolution (prior to the industrial age). Most of these devices transmit low range (0-20 hZ) pulses and claim to be able to help many conditions including depression & sleep.
In the fall (about right now) my sleep quality is the first thing to go and then I drop off a cliff like a boulder into debilitating depression. I exercise, use light-box therapy, even go tanning, but still struggle to find any energy and am unable to improve my mood. Each year its been getting worse and I am desperate to try something other than the same old anti-depressants (with all their side-effects).
There are also ionization machines (which make "energized oxygen") more commonly known as O3 or ozone, a pollutant also made by the sun. I guess another theory suggests this may be a part of SAD. I am less likely to try this one.
Haven't seen much feedback anywhere about PEMF's out there. Hope someone may have had some experience here.
Thanks,
CB at 43 degrees north latitude.
In the fall (about right now) my sleep quality is the first thing to go and then I drop off a cliff like a boulder into debilitating depression. I exercise, use light-box therapy, even go tanning, but still struggle to find any energy and am unable to improve my mood. Each year its been getting worse and I am desperate to try something other than the same old anti-depressants (with all their side-effects).
There are also ionization machines (which make "energized oxygen") more commonly known as O3 or ozone, a pollutant also made by the sun. I guess another theory suggests this may be a part of SAD. I am less likely to try this one.
Haven't seen much feedback anywhere about PEMF's out there. Hope someone may have had some experience here.
Thanks,
CB at 43 degrees north latitude.
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I know what you mean about it getting worse over the years. I already have year-round depression, anxiety, and PTSD. In winter, I'd either be sleeping all the time or frequently suicidal. It got worse over the years.
I moved to Texas where the winters are mild. I still feel it in late December but it's "SAD lite" rather than wanting to not exist anymore. At least here you can still go outside when it's cold. I moved here from PA. I didn't move here bc of SAD but it was another pleasant side effect of leaving the Northeast.
I live in Canada, so I wish I could live in Maui because of the weather and that's where I got married.