Sad about SADS
So I finally know what's wrong with me! Oh, happy day. I can now work on resolving my SADS. As I live in Seattle I thought (dur) that I was used to the weather and that it was just, well, weather. However, the last year has been brutal for its lack of sun here and I have succumbed to a need for 100K lumens, more Vitamin D and other changes. A year of ongoing therapy to measure my seasonal changes has paid off, sort of. As far as diagnoses go I'm relatively pleased with this. It certainly beats the sucking chest wound of liver cancer or somesuch. This is an issue that while requiring change and minor annoyance is something that won't kill me. I'll be carrying around my brightlight like a security blanket around my house as apparently I need to have it on if I spend more than 20 minutes doing anything sedentary. Sit, light. Move, carry light. Sit, plug in light. I see how this will go.
I also have to acquire the "alarm clock" style of brightlight as apparently I need this first thing in the morning as well as the one I will carry about. I'm also getting blackout curtains so that my transition from dark to light is measurable. Apparently the darker gray to lighter gray that is the sunrise in Seattle isn't cutting it for me. I'm also having the contractor in again (cry) but this time to install more lighting in my living/computer room so that I don't sit in the gray all day. If you want to have tons of fun at my house in January bring mirrors. We can play "blind the geeks".
Speaking of geeks. . .I had decided in October that I was good with the world and it was time to start attempting to date again. I'm hella bad at the process but I figured that I'd see what happened. Apparently I'm better at it than I thought. 5 weeks later I have 3 very potential yummy guys that I have to make decisions about. LOL I thought I'd go out, have some terribad stories to tell about dates from hell and whatnot before I found That One Guy that would play well with my other(s) but no. It's a good thing but maybe too much of one. I feel very blessed about now.
I also have to acquire the "alarm clock" style of brightlight as apparently I need this first thing in the morning as well as the one I will carry about. I'm also getting blackout curtains so that my transition from dark to light is measurable. Apparently the darker gray to lighter gray that is the sunrise in Seattle isn't cutting it for me. I'm also having the contractor in again (cry) but this time to install more lighting in my living/computer room so that I don't sit in the gray all day. If you want to have tons of fun at my house in January bring mirrors. We can play "blind the geeks".
Speaking of geeks. . .I had decided in October that I was good with the world and it was time to start attempting to date again. I'm hella bad at the process but I figured that I'd see what happened. Apparently I'm better at it than I thought. 5 weeks later I have 3 very potential yummy guys that I have to make decisions about. LOL I thought I'd go out, have some terribad stories to tell about dates from hell and whatnot before I found That One Guy that would play well with my other(s) but no. It's a good thing but maybe too much of one. I feel very blessed about now.