| Winter is approaching and there is a group of | | | | spectrum lights designed for lamps that treat |
| Americans, about ten million strong, who dread it | | | | seasonal affective disorder are up to ten times |
| more and more each year. For no reason they | | | | more powerful than incandescent bulbs and emit |
| begin to feel depressed, lose motivation, and | | | | the same spectrum of light that the sun does. |
| suffer through feelings of anxiety and loneliness | | | | The treatment of seasonal affective disorder is |
| once the seasons change that never seem to | | | | simple and painless with these lamps. Someone |
| abate until spring breaks. These feelings are | | | | afflicted with SAD just sits by the lamp for at |
| known as Seasonal Affective Disorder and are | | | | least an hour, and up to several hours, a day so |
| caused by underexposure to sunlight. Luckily for | | | | that their body can soak up the artificial sun's |
| people that suffer through every winter with | | | | rays. The lamp can be put on a desk at work at |
| SAD, there are some options now available that | | | | any other area. You can even read and work as |
| can treat the disease. | | | | you normally would while sitting close to the lamp. |
| Most symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder | | | | Just make sure not to wear any kind of |
| can be cured through the use of a special lamp | | | | sunglasses when sitting next to the lamp because |
| made to treat the disease. Ordinary light bulbs | | | | the light from the full spectrum bulbs needs to |
| only emit a small spectrum of light, where the sun | | | | strike your retinas to cause the chemical reaction |
| on the other hand emits a wide spectrum ranging | | | | in your body that treats the symptoms of |
| from UV rays to infrared waves. The full | | | | Seasonal Affective Disorder. |