Seasonal Depression (SAD)

A bout of seasonal depression (seasonal affective disorder) seems to have struck the household... Call it the winter blues or depression.. I think the longing for those sunny even hot Bangalore days of riding the bike to the local market, or wandering on crowded noisy streets seems like heaven.

Kids are complaining of the school work, I am complaining about the cooking, no one seems specially hungry (at least for food), the brown squishy stuff called chocolate is a craving, we seem to be in bed by 10 pm and still dont get up refreshed at 6 am!! (That a full 8 hours... truly adequate for adults and grown up kids!!)The evening finds each of us engaged in solitary activities.. each in a world of their own.

I went to the internet to see if this was real and what could be done.. !! Well light therapy seems to be the answer.

"Light therapy, sometimes called phototherapy, is administered by a device that contains white fluorescent light tubes covered with a plastic screen to block ultraviolet rays. The intensity of light emitted (Lux) should be at least 10,000 Lux. The patient does not need to look directly into the light, but reads or eats while sitting in front of the device at a distance of 2 to 3 feet. Light therapy is safe and generally well tolerated."

Or may be we should just book ourselves on a flight to Bangalore!! What heaven!!