I too suffer with SAD as soon as the light levels drop. Hubby this year took it into his head to do something, hence I am now taking vitamin D. I was unconvinced, but I must say the down times have been fewer and shorter, so maybe they have helped me, @GemmaJF. Just a thought.🙂
My GP told me earlier this year that most people in the UK should take Vitamin D all winter or even all year round if you spend most of your time in an office/indoors because most people are deficient in it. I am prescribed high dosage for osteopororis.
I too suffer with SAD as soon as the light levels drop. Hubby this year took it into his head to do something, hence I am now taking vitamin D. I was unconvinced, but I must say the down times have been fewer and shorter, so maybe they have helped me, @GemmaJF. Just a thought.🙂
I really should dose up on it. I've heard about light boxes as well. It's been so long now I sometimes think I've become too accustomed to it. It's sort of ridiculous because it is totally linked with the clocks changing. As soon as they do, I start going to bed later and later, feel totally unmotivated to do anything (like even brushing my teeth) and more and more withdrawn. Perhaps this winter I really should tackle it head on, instead of preparing to fall into it once again. Since the lock down I'm going from feeling fine on sunny days when I get out, to going back into the depths of it on other days. Bit much when I usually shake it by the end of March and become totally functional again.
In all though it has really made me think a lot about how other people must be feeling right now who are not used to that kind of weirdness. Especially those stuck in flats in cities.
Isn't it silly how we keep plodding on with things thinking it's just a passing phase, or it will right itself. Every year it happens, but in the last two years hubby has been at home ( shoulder injury) so has seen more than usual how I'm affected. So he did something, which worked. People don't understand that them just being home, or inside will have such an effect on their wellbeing, and for active people it must be like nails on a chalkboard. We will all get though this, like we do with SAD, but it will leave its mark.
As a fellow sufferer, I have taken Vit. D and used a light box for many years. I think they are of some benefit, although I am speaking here as a patient, not a doctor.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Keep sane Gemma, yes, I understand the light boxes are very effective My youngest son is pretty relaxed about the whole thing, sometimes, he cannot leave his flat at all.
Another problem that is not really appreciated, is that we have no idea how long people will have antibodies for, it may be forever, but it could only be for a few weeks, which you will appreciate is potentially worrying. Antibody testing for any disease has many flaws, but understandably it is not an issue which is much dwelt on by the scientists.
Any less than a year or so and a vaccine won't be any use, which is very worrying indeed. Even a year or so would mean annual vaccination, which probably means no universal vaccination programme.
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That's my fear, that it will become like the common cold, just something we have to put up with. Only much nastier for the unlucky people who are severely affected by it.
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In all though it has really made me think a lot about how other people must be feeling right now who are not used to that kind of weirdness. Especially those stuck in flats in cities.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Any less than a year or so and a vaccine won't be any use, which is very worrying indeed. Even a year or so would mean annual vaccination, which probably means no universal vaccination programme.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border