Light Therapy Box

Without beating around the bush, I get f**king miserable in the winter. I've wondered for a long time if I suffer from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), but this time round, with grey skies and biting cold outside, I've decided to try light therapy in an attempt to combat it.

We had a look at various light boxes and saw this one at Maplin for a much cheaper price than elsewhere. I tried it out for the first time this evening as I seem to be suffering from Early Shift - whereby I wake up stupidly early in the morning and can't get back to sleep. Advice has been to have light therapy around 5 hours before I'm due to go to bed, so I sat reading for an hour in front of it at 6pm.

It's quite amazing how dim the lights in the rest of the house seem after using it. I'm looking forward to seeing how well it works.