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Using a Light Box for Seasonal Affective Disorder – Therapy – Depression

Most people with winter-onset SAD can benefit from light therapy, but in light therapy, the devil is in the details. A very basic, bottom line description of light therapy is that it consists of light entering the patients retina from a prescribed distance for a prescribed amount of time. But distance and angle of the [...]

 

Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder

If you have episodes of depression that occur only in the fall, winter and early spring, you may have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The hallmarks of SAD are excessive sleeping, carbohydrate and sugar cravings, lethargy, difficulty concentrating and depression. Although many of the symptoms are similar to non-seasonal depression, if your symptoms go away with [...]

 

Light therapy may help depression in pregnancy | Reuters

(Reuters Health) – Light therapy may improve symptoms in pregnant women with depression, suggests a new study of 27 women in Switzerland. While the study was small, the findings are promising for doctors who have been hesitant to treat with antidepressants out of fear that the drugs might harm the fetus. On the other hand, [...]