DIY Lightbox for Seasonal Affective Disorder

Posted by Alex in Medicine on January 1, 2009 at 3:11 pm

To help his sister who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder, Boris Legradic of Letters from Lausanne blog made her a DIY lightbox:

My sister suffers from seasonal affective disorder, also known as winter depression. A commonly prescribed therapy is light therapy – about thirty minutes of bright light in the morning. Bright in this context means more than 10 000 Lumens. You can of course buy commercial light-boxes, but I wanted to construct one by myself…

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