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...
This is only one small tip of the iceberg on vitamin D....
it can really help with SAD
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-18354/5-reasons-vitamin-d-is-even-more-important-than-you-think.html
https://www.facebook.com/notes/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad-winter-depression-winter-blues/info-on-how-to-test-for-vitamin-d-and-what-the-levels-mean/10152969739407086
I don't know if you can get to that one if you are not on facebook.
this is on side effects of light boxes...yes, there can be some. I use Sunbox company, but this is from another....
just putting it out here in case anyone is ever looking.
http://www.beatthewinterblues.info/the-most-common-side-effects-of-lightboxes/
Best place to start is still Dr. Rosenthal's "Winter Blues"
it can really help with SAD
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-18354/5-reasons-vitamin-d-is-even-more-important-than-you-think.html
https://www.facebook.com/notes/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad-winter-depression-winter-blues/info-on-how-to-test-for-vitamin-d-and-what-the-levels-mean/10152969739407086
I don't know if you can get to that one if you are not on facebook.
this is on side effects of light boxes...yes, there can be some. I use Sunbox company, but this is from another....
just putting it out here in case anyone is ever looking.
http://www.beatthewinterblues.info/the-most-common-side-effects-of-lightboxes/
Best place to start is still Dr. Rosenthal's "Winter Blues"
Have a lightbox... use it to get my butt out of bed in the winter time - hard to get up, when it dark outside... but when the light comes on... makes me want to throw the thing out the window, so bright. Read some where if you spend too much time in front of it, could spark anxiety... go figure. Just use it to get up... that's all.
My Vitamin D level is 35 ng/mL. I also have vitiligo and because of that, my doctor has told me to stop using my light box. I did not think to ask why. Even though it was helping, I have stopped. I had been thinking what to do for my SAD. I am going to take Vitamin D to increase it to a safe level.
Are there any other suggestions?