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  • December 15, 2018 at 12:39 pm #269373
    Lou
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    Hey Lauren,

    Just checked out your Instagram and I loooove Mary Poppins. I’ve been waiting for the new one to come out since like pre-production and so excited it’s coming out next week! I like your work and will check out more stuff after this reply 🙂 (I’m not on Instagram so I’m sorry about not adding you another follower ;))

    Well so coming back to the topic, I even found a weird study, when googling back then, on using brighter lightbulbs and equipping the whole flat with them (found back the link! https://arbital.com/p/lumenators/), but I just couldn’t be bothered to do all that fuss hah. But anyway my light therapy lamp with extended duration works fine for me so no need for that either anyway. And yes of course you can be on your computer and keep the lamp on aside your monitor, that’s the only way I do it! My psychiatrist told me that it’s even a better idea to work on the laptop or read something whilst the light therapy because that means you’re looking down (unless your monitor is huge of course), which means the light comes from above and hits the part in your eyes where the sunlight hits (I’m no doctor and can’t remember all the body part names!). That’s why the height of the lamp is also important: higher or at least the eye height. And also you should keep it in a quite close distance.

    Maybe avoid using it late afternoon or night because it’s supposed to disturb your sleep? But I’ve never tried it myself so I don’t know! That’s just what they say. Did you sleep alright after using it at night time?

    Yeah I’ve noticed Australia has quite a lot of standup comedy festivals (like the one in Melbourne?). I watch loads on YouTube! :p Hope you’ll go there next year then! 🙂

    December 6, 2018 at 7:09 am #268069
    Lou
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    Hey Lauren,

    I’ve got the same question as Imomum – Do you mean a light therapy lamp/box by ‘the light’ in your first comment?

    Because I tried everything you mentioned last winter, exercise, essential oils, meditation or yoga, for months and they were doing nothing for me, so I ended up trying an antidepressant but then soon the winter was over so I stopped. Which worked by the way even if it was a short period of time.

    But this autumn/winter, I started light therapy and it’s seriously life-changing, I wish I’d had this last winter and the winters before. If you did mean light therapy and you’re already doing it but it’s not really helping, try increasing the dose, I do it during all morning, sometimes even in the afternoon, instead of the recommended time which is 30 minutes in the morning per day. Because I was doing it for 30 min as recommended since September (because you’re supposed to start it before it actually gets gloomy) and I had that drop-down feeling early October as soon as it got grey, and I googled and read that if it’s not being efficient, you can try longer duration. And I’m all good now, I’d even say I’m no longer used to ‘feeling well’ this time of the year with this kind of weather so it’s even quite weird to feel well! Haha.

    Also, as Imomum does, I take a high dose of vitamin D (10000 IU every other day) too. I don’t know if it helps mood-wise but it definitely helps physiologically and keeps my energy level right.

    Being and touring in Australia should absolutely help though! Only some weeks to go for you then 🙂

    I joined the site to be able to leave you a reply, so please try the light therapy (higher dose)! I feel like I could even go live in Sweden or Finland if I have this haha.

    But yeah as Anita suggests, I’ll be moving down south as soon as I can, well, if I can, job etc. etc. Life isn’t that simple sometimes eh.

    Hope it’s of some use for you.

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