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Therapy for sleep disturbances and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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Dragging with fatigue
by early evening? Whether you have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or sleep disturbances caused by stress, a mood disorder or medications, you can use light to help regulate your circadian rhythms, or body clock, so that you can rise more easily and avoid late-afternoon and evening fatigue. Light produces hormones and neurotransmitters that affect our and well being. |
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A few manufacturers market special sunlamps specifically for this purpose, at prices ranging from $200-300. But you can fashion your own for a much smaller cost that will work just as efficiently.
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Exposure
to bright light should be set to create a daylight simulation as many
minutes before it is naturally bright outside as you want to advance
your rising time.This can program your body to feel ready to get out
of bed when it's time. That same exposure for two to three hours in
the early evening can convince your body that it's not yet bedtime and
that it needs to stay awake a while longer. 
Dr.
Robert Ruegg, a psychiatrist at Exempla West Pines Hospital, Wheat
Ridge, Colorado, suggests converting an outdoor floodlight for use indoors.
He has recommended to his patients a lamp made by