Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hi. My name is Kev and until recently I was living with chronic mild depression for 10 years. My mood was slightly low every minute of every day. I believe it was dysthymic disorder and that I would never get out of it. I thought I would try light therapy so after some research I bought a lamp from Britebox. Let me tell you it is the best investment I could have ever possibly made. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Never had any side effects and I REMAIN completely well. I wanted to post this sharepost so that if anybody wanted to ask any questions or talk about anything I could listen to them. Please fell free. :)
Hi, Marishka. I'm glad to hear your doing better with a light box but I was disheartened to hear that you still get depressed sometimes. What kind of light box do you have?
Hi Kev,
Mine is from SunBox company. It is the most popular of theirs, I really like it and I do think it makes a difference...I sit under it about an hour a day in the cloudy weather...I live in N. CA and it can stay cloudy for a few weeks here...there are so many other factors though, nutrition, exercise, chemicals, social support, stress...ya know? depression I find is so multidimensional...it's like you have to do everthing under the sun(no pun intended! :) ) to keep it under check...for me at least...where are you located? you mentioned your depression was dsthymia too, mine can get very severe...I find stress to make it very bad...nice to hear it works...I know it helps me too...
Marishka
Hi, Marishka. I live in England, UK. I use mine for 30 mins each day and you are right when you say that a lot of things can treat depression.