If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.
secretagent09New Jersey Girl in, North Carolina USA7,229 posts
abcWOMAN: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
Dark days don't bother me. In fact I prefer a day without the bright sun because brightness hurts my eyes. My daughter needs the sun and was taking Vitamin D because her work as a police officer didn't get her outside much. She recently retired and moved to the beach so now she no longer needs that vitamin. My calcium tables have Vitamin D in them.
abcWOMAN: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
Dark days to me is winter, much sludge,yet rain is good. Light therapy is laying down at night seeing the bight stars and planets, I see a few from here.
My experience Is just living the dream,at times you wake, yet you just plant, and await the summer of fullness. Lettuce tomatoes basil silver beet rubarb turnips pumpkins,cutting down many a herb to awash with with summer sun.
If my days were on darkness, I would treasure my fire. And not call my pigs and cattle a name.
abcWOMAN: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
2 hours is not much daylight. Here around Christmas, we get about 7 - 8 hours.
I never tried light therapy but am interested in it. Anything to make the day more pleasant.
secretagent09: Dark days don't bother me. In fact I prefer a day without the bright sun because brightness hurts my eyes. My daughter needs the sun and was taking Vitamin D because her work as a police officer didn't get her outside much. She recently retired and moved to the beach so now she no longer needs that vitamin. My calcium tables have Vitamin D in them.
Hi M
It's not always easy to find the right balance. It's a good thing to take vitamin D. The best thing is perhaps to move to a sunnier Place, but I don't want to move from the darkness!
As a northern Canadian, I am familiar with this seasonality....and I do suffer from SAD,....I just try to get as much sunlight as possible and keep up on the Vitamin D.....the minute my shadow is longer than I am tall at noon,...time to start hitting the D!
abcWOMAN: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
my skin is milky white and my hair is blond/ginger..I'm made for as little sunlight as possible
sophiasummer: Dark days to me is winter, much sludge,yet rain is good. Light therapy is laying down at night seeing the bight stars and planets, I see a few from here.
My experience Is just living the dream,at times you wake, yet you just plant, and await the summer of fullness. Lettuce tomatoes basil silver beet rubarb turnips pumpkins,cutting down many a herb to awash with with summer sun.
If my days were on darkness, I would treasure my fire. And not call my pigs and cattle a name.
We decorate our windows with lots of lights during the dark time of the year. I guess it’s just a way to make us to feel better, a tradition though. It’s a good thing bright stars and planets put you in a good mood!
Light therapy or phototherapy (classically referred to as heliotherapy) consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using polychromatic polarised light, lasers, light-emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light. The light is administered for a prescribed amount of time and, in some cases, at a specific time of day. (Thank you Wikipedia).
Track16: 2 hours is not much daylight. Here around Christmas, we get about 7 - 8 hours.
I never tried light therapy but am interested in it. Anything to make the day more pleasant.
I know you have more Daylight, since you're living further South. I live only one hour from the Arctic Circle. If I get a chance, I'll certainly try light therapy. It's getting more accessible now.
Da_Moose: As a northern Canadian, I am familiar with this seasonality....and I do suffer from SAD,....I just try to get as much sunlight as possible and keep up on the Vitamin D.....the minute my shadow is longer than I am tall at noon,...time to start hitting the D!
I guess Canadians go to Florida for a week or two like Scandinavians go to Southern Europé, just to see the sun!
abcWOMAN: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
Hiya abc
Having moved over from Africa, I find the darkness quite disconcerting.
The cold I can deal with but it's now dark by 5pm. I take Vit D as a supplement and get away to the sunshine when I can
In response to: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
A 20 minute walk outdoors in daylight hours is enough to keep your Vitamin D ticking over during the short days. I try to do this at lunchtime as much as possible.
I try to avoid supplements as much as possible, preferring to get my vitamins from their natural source.
lifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico16,713 posts
abcWOMAN: If you’re living in northern Europe or elsewhere, where the daylight is decreasing for every day this time of the year, you might feel sometime tired. Less daylight or “short days” can make people tired. Around Christmas we have around 2 hours of daylight here in northern Scandinavia. D- vitamin is added in our groceries, milk etc.How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.
I have lived a few years at a more northern latitude but the short days did not bother me (also the winters were 6 months with snow and I love it) I wonder if living permanently in such places would.
Get some light even artificial if that improves your well being.
Vitamins are added to a lot of our foods here too. Our milk is Vitamin D added and most of our cereals & many breads bought in the store have added vitamins.
I enjoy what sunlight I can. We turn out clocks back, next week I believe, which gives us more evening light.
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How do you handle the dark days?
Have you ever tried light therapy?
Please share your experience.