Has anybody used on of these lights
http://www.outsidein.co.uk/sadrange.htm
http://www.britebox.co.uk/gallery2.htm
Thinking about getting one, but I’m not sure about whether they are any good, and not sure how to fit it into my life.
Any idea’s advice
They do work. They were, I believe, invented at the Oulu University which may just be the northern-most university in the world (just north of the Arctic Circle), as over there, you don’t see the sun for months on end over the winter, and the suicide rates are the highest in the world.
Most big businesses in Finland have them, and you’re encouraged to use them. I think you only need 20min a day. My mother worked at a printers’, so she was in this huge factory hall, with no natural light inside, nor really outside (the sun rises around 10am and sets around 2pm, but if it’s overcast, you really don’t see any sun at all), and the company set a few of the lightboxes out in the common rooms with time slots.
After about a month, they asked people who’d used them if they’d noticed any difference, and my mother said she definitely felt more awake and more energetic. She then bought one for home, too. She’s had a Philips one for the past 5-6 years, and it’s no bigger than a computer monitor. She switches it on while she has breakfast, and then just stores it away for the next morning.
There are salons that offer this type of “light therapy” in Boston…the winters there are hard…tons of snow, dark when you get up in the morning…and dark early each afternoon (dusk at 4…dark at 4:30-5:00)…I’ve never tried it (but probably should as I usually fight depression all winter long…I’m a Spring/Summer person for sure!)
I read an article in a Boston trade journal once that indicated that January was the busiest month of the year according to local travel agents. People would just “snap”…call the agency and book the first trip to ANYWHERE tropical. :shrug
At the last placed I worked at, some guy had one in the office, and it went straight into my eyes, I had to ask him to turn it off, as it was going to make me hurt him.
So they seem to ba a good idea. Jay it seems like it make you more energetic, was the happy when you asked him to turn it off? This would be an issue where I work.
Thanks for the info
Get one for home then.
You only need to have on for 20 minutes a day for the big ones, the smaller ones were longer. They’re not designed to be on constantly. If you have it at the office, use it when the people complaining are having lunch.
Lol just get a monitor or TV and sit really close to it… Light box but more intresting lol 
Only marginally, surely? Having said that, the mo-fo channel isn’t that bad!
My family have always said that i suffer with this so one of my ex-girlfriends bought me a similar light about 2 years ago, i tried it once and nearly blinded everyone within a ten metre radius so it’s sat under my desk…makes a handy footrest
I have actually thought about getting one of these, the misses wants one aswell as she’s not a winter person. Plus where I work there are no immediate windows, and after a couple of years here its starting to take its toll.
Might have to look into it, one at home would be ok as it wouldn’t intrude on anyone at work. Need a new alarm clock so maybe I could talk her into a ‘Body Clock’ as well - my misses would love those, she likes her ‘alternative’ therapies (altho technically this isnt one, there is some proof out there)
I totally understand about SAD… I have suffered since I was a child… I have found that a vistit to a sunbed once a week in the winter months helps me out a great deal… Works for me… 
