Fuck You. I don’t know where You live, but maybe You have enough summer. My country is gray and sad for 10 months out of the year. It only gets sunny and sad for 2 months and it’s the only time when the depression eases up a bit. I’d rather die in a heatwave than live through another autumn.
This seems like an excessively hostile reply to leave to an innocuous comment? Are you doing okay? I ask this earnestly; I know that I’m much more likely to leave angry comments if I’m having an especially bad day, so I was wondering if the same might be true for you
If you’re dealing with SAD we cannot recommend getting a ridiculously oversized bay light to live over your desk highly enough. Our is in excess of 30k lumens, so like, seriously, ridiculously oversized. They really do help.
That is ridiculous. I mean I can believe they make them, I just can’t believe they’re legal. My headlight on my bike is only 500 lumen and it gets the street good enough for the speeds I can get up to.
A few hours a day is probably enough. If it’s LED you can probably adjust the color temperature too, so like a warmer light in the evening and a bluer light in the morning, maybe pure white around late morning/early afternoon. Or just get three different bulbs.
Might help for a few hours of high-focus time, then take a break with some dimmer light to reset. Doesn’t need to be all day.
Doesn’t need to be 30k lumens either. 5k-10k is already insanely bright and should be effective when combined with the right white-balance. Even 500-1000 lumens is plenty bright enough for most purposes. Higher kelvins (like 5k-8k) makes the light more bluish and that’s what’s most important for treating SAD. Some UV spectrum is helpful for that too as it helps with vitamin D synthesis
If color fidelity is important to your line of work, a bulb with 90-100 CRI is a great idea too.
My desk lamp has a 500 lumen, 5000 kelvin, 90+ CRI bulb and I can’t imagine a situation where I would need it to be brighter. I have a similar bulb that’s 1100 lumens but it feels like overkill.
Fuck You. I don’t know where You live, but maybe You have enough summer. My country is gray and sad for 10 months out of the year. It only gets sunny and sad for 2 months and it’s the only time when the depression eases up a bit. I’d rather die in a heatwave than live through another autumn.
Thanks to dysphoria, summer actually is the more depressive time for me
Well I’ve got good news for you!
This becomes more likely every year you’ll be alive!
It’s okay, your country will be subtropical in a few years while everyone else is already being burnt out of existence
This is heartwarming.
This seems like an excessively hostile reply to leave to an innocuous comment? Are you doing okay? I ask this earnestly; I know that I’m much more likely to leave angry comments if I’m having an especially bad day, so I was wondering if the same might be true for you
Obviously I’m having a bad day. It’s wednesday so I had to go to work.
40°C is very quickly unfun
Florida welcomes you with open arms. I get seasonal depression in the summer because it’s too hot to do anything outside most days
Yeah but then you have to live in Florida
If you’re dealing with SAD we cannot recommend getting a ridiculously oversized bay light to live over your desk highly enough. Our is in excess of 30k lumens, so like, seriously, ridiculously oversized. They really do help.
That is ridiculous. I mean I can believe they make them, I just can’t believe they’re legal. My headlight on my bike is only 500 lumen and it gets the street good enough for the speeds I can get up to.
Why… wouldn’t it be?
Bay light, not bike light. Next time you’re in a big box store, look up. If they have round lights, those are the style.
I’d rather die in darkness than live under a constant sun
A few hours a day is probably enough. If it’s LED you can probably adjust the color temperature too, so like a warmer light in the evening and a bluer light in the morning, maybe pure white around late morning/early afternoon. Or just get three different bulbs.
Might help for a few hours of high-focus time, then take a break with some dimmer light to reset. Doesn’t need to be all day.
Doesn’t need to be 30k lumens either. 5k-10k is already insanely bright and should be effective when combined with the right white-balance. Even 500-1000 lumens is plenty bright enough for most purposes. Higher kelvins (like 5k-8k) makes the light more bluish and that’s what’s most important for treating SAD. Some UV spectrum is helpful for that too as it helps with vitamin D synthesis
If color fidelity is important to your line of work, a bulb with 90-100 CRI is a great idea too.
My desk lamp has a 500 lumen, 5000 kelvin, 90+ CRI bulb and I can’t imagine a situation where I would need it to be brighter. I have a similar bulb that’s 1100 lumens but it feels like overkill.
We are not the boss of you. Do as you will, including choosing some limited number of hours of exposure.