Sun lamp? I might need to look into this
My old roommate had a full spectrum light he kept in his desk. We don’t get much sun, so it was to help compensate (for stuff like mental health and such)
Oh, man. I can’t imagine living with no sun. I’m in Florida and this past “Winter” there was a full 7 days where it was overcast. I almost cried.
In most of Canada, winter days are short enough that many people get to the office before the sun is fully up, and leave work after it sets. Seasonal depression is a very real thing.
I get seasonal anxiety from the cold in winter
It’s funny how people are. I don’t think I can cope with the weather being hot all the time. Cold is fine, I can deal with that, but hot, ugh.
Where I live we don’t really have any mechanism to lose heat. Other than open a window but then every insect on the planet comes inside. But I can just turn up my heating if I need warmth.
You can put more clothes on but you can’t take more off
chills naked on a hot rock under the sunlamp
licks eye
The air purifiers and dehumidifier were the real game changers for me. I can breathe through my nose now!
Yeah I’ve only got one a few weeks ago and I’m obsessed with it now.
I live in England so I should have realized that the air is humid (It gets hot here, I swear), but it never really occurred to me before that moisture was the same as humidity.
I could practically live off the water it extracts from the air. Have no idea if that’s good or bad for me, but it feels better
They are excellent for seasonal affective disorder. Basically, humans technically have a mild form of hibernation. Our modern lifestyle doesn’t allow for that however. When you don’t get enough sunlight, our body assumes it’s time to bed down. This is experienced as an extended bout of apathy and tiredness, leading to depression.
A sunlamp has enough light, of the right spectrum, to help reset this system to summer mode.
Tell me more about this anti-depression sun lamp.
You turn it on and the depression goes away
Big pharma hate it.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/best-sad-light-therapy-lamps
I’m personally a bit skeptical of them, but I also don’t know anything about it other than that they exist.