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...
Had anyone tried tanning beds for SAD and has it helped?
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in a tanning bed you have to wear eye covers. the light therapy enters your body through the eyes, so no it would not work.
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Thank you very much for the info.
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Thank you for that info too cuz I was thinking of going to a tanning bed myself........getting desperate here......
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i know people who have been told by their doctors to got to tanning beds for a short amount of time. I personally would be afraid of the damage to my eyes if i went into a bed without eye covers. they do make me feel a little better, even just for a little while.
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Tanning beds are definetly not the way to go...for one they are harmful to you. Try a lite box or other alternative methods...Good luck!
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
