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...

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worldofblah4 12/10/2013

I have been having an increasingly hard time getting up for work/school. I need to wake up early enough to do light therapy. I know it will help but can't do it...any tips?

blueviolet725 12/10/2013

Some people have the lights set up by their beds, on a timer...the light helps you get up and you are already starting your therapy...

going to bed at a consisitant time helps me...and exercise so I am so tired I sleep thru the night...what I do the night before really makes my mornings different....

I got my son a HUGE alarm clock, the old fashion kind with the bells, about a foot across...and he put it across his room so he had to get up to turn it off....

hope something helps...or makes you smile.

blueviolet725 12/10/2013

I didn't say what I do....I have the coffee pot set to go on a timer, turn on my computer, and light box and now nebulizer and sit in my comfy bathrobe and read the latest goings on in the world...instead of a newspaper.
I also have a dog that needs to be let out...so she makes me move..

deleted_user 12/12/2013

I get hubby to turn my bedroom light on, and in the depths of winter he will bring my lightbox through and put it beside the bed too. I have a radio alarm that starts going off 10 minutes before my actual alarm, so I wake up gently to nice music.
My actual alarm clock is my cellphone, the most annoying tune I could find, on the other side of the room

blueviolet725 12/12/2013

HA! Fighter...so funny....all soft and sweet until you get to the cell phone across the room! Made me chuckle.

deleted_user 12/20/2013

I used a dawn simulator light, but I have also put a light on a timer before for a similar effect. Also, if you use light therapy it can help to do it in the morning.

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