Seasonal Affective Disorder

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This thread is for everybody, but it’s mostly for the person who posted on the Fall thread, which I cannot find, about being severely affected by seasonal affective disorder.

I have always been somewhat affected by S.A.D., but life events dramatically increased it a couple of years ago and I was looking for a way to reduce it. I bought under-counter dimmable daylight led strips on Amazon and affixed them facing down in the window frames behind the curtains. The ones I bought are out of stock but here are similar ones. When it first starts getting dark in the afternoon I turn them on at 100%, then dim them as the evening progresses to simulate a more desirable sunset, turning them off completely at about 8pm. Consciously I know it’s dark out, especially since I have to take the dogs out, but that subconscious part of my brain that starts screaming when the sun goes down at 4pm is mostly satisfied with the pretense. I took the picture below at about midnight, it’s completely dark out. You can see that it’s a pretty good illusion, especially where the light falls on the wall by the lamp, which is off. It looks like sunset light.
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