Neatorama » winter depression http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DIY Lightbox for Seasonal Affective Disorder http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/01/diy-lightbox-for-seasonal-affective-disorder/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/01/diy-lightbox-for-seasonal-affective-disorder/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:11:06 +0000 Alex http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/01/diy-lightbox-for-seasonal-affective-disorder/ 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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