Lamps For Seasonal Affective Disorder – Light Therapy
Light therapy for SAD has been shown to show result in relieving the symptoms of winter-onset SAD. Just shower yourself with the light for 30 minutes each day throughout the fall and winter, when you’re most likely to be depressed. It doesn’t need to have the characteristic of sunlight, what the light need is to have 25 times as bright as a normal living room light in order to work.
If you want to get lamps for seasonal affective disorder, you want “White Light” box, not the blue light or full spectrum that can be useless or dangerous. There are many products that offer blue light for SAD treatment, but it doesn’t work as well as the white light box.
There are mild side effects that can occur when using light therapy such as: fatigue and eyestrain.
This therapy only works for the winter-onset SAD, it won’t work for the summer-onset SAD.
The best lamps for seasonal affective disorder – light therapy:
Uplift Technologies DL930 Day-Light 10,000 Lux SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) Lamp
Lightphoria 10,000 lux SAD Light Therapy Pad (Seasonal Affective Disorder) Sunlight Simulator. 2011 model (v2.1) is much more smaller white box light than above, and it shower you with upward angle light.
NatureBright SunTouch Plus Light and Ion Therapy Lamp is a medium white box light with light showering from straight forward with a bit upward angle.
posted: 11 July 2
under: Medical information