Fuck You. I don't know where You live, but maybe You have enough summer. My country is gray and sad for 10 months out of the year. It only gets sunny and sad for 2 months and it's the only time when the depression eases up a bit. I'd rather die in a heatwave than live through another autumn.
If you're dealing with SAD we cannot recommend getting a ridiculously oversized bay light to live over your desk highly enough. Our is in excess of 30k lumens, so like, seriously, ridiculously oversized. They really do help.
A few hours a day is probably enough. If it's LED you can probably adjust the color temperature too, so like a warmer light in the evening and a bluer light in the morning, maybe pure white around late morning/early afternoon. Or just get three different bulbs.
Might help for a few hours of high-focus time, then take a break with some dimmer light to reset. Doesn't need to be all day.
Doesn't need to be 30k lumens either. 5k-10k is already insanely bright and should be effective when combined with the right white-balance. Even 500-1000 lumens is plenty bright enough for most purposes. Higher kelvins (like 5k-8k) makes the light more bluish and that's what's most important for treating SAD. Some UV spectrum is helpful for that too as it helps with vitamin D synthesis
If color fidelity is important to your line of work, a bulb with 90-100 CRI is a great idea too.
My desk lamp has a 500 lumen, 5000 kelvin, 90+ CRI bulb and I can't imagine a situation where I would need it to be brighter. I have a similar bulb that's 1100 lumens but it feels like overkill.
That is ridiculous. I mean I can believe they make them, I just can't believe they're legal. My headlight on my bike is only 500 lumen and it gets the street good enough for the speeds I can get up to.
This seems like an excessively hostile reply to leave to an innocuous comment? Are you doing okay? I ask this earnestly; I know that I'm much more likely to leave angry comments if I'm having an especially bad day, so I was wondering if the same might be true for you
22 Comments
mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 23d
Summertime’s the worst time of the year:(
hOrni@lemmy.world · -26 pts · 23d
Fuck You. I don't know where You live, but maybe You have enough summer. My country is gray and sad for 10 months out of the year. It only gets sunny and sad for 2 months and it's the only time when the depression eases up a bit. I'd rather die in a heatwave than live through another autumn.
robear@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 23d
Well I've got good news for you!
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d
This becomes more likely every year you'll be alive!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 23d
HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 23d
If you're dealing with SAD we cannot recommend getting a ridiculously oversized bay light to live over your desk highly enough. Our is in excess of 30k lumens, so like, seriously, ridiculously oversized. They really do help.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 23d
I’d rather die in darkness than live under a constant sun
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 22d
A few hours a day is probably enough. If it's LED you can probably adjust the color temperature too, so like a warmer light in the evening and a bluer light in the morning, maybe pure white around late morning/early afternoon. Or just get three different bulbs.
Might help for a few hours of high-focus time, then take a break with some dimmer light to reset. Doesn't need to be all day.
Doesn't need to be 30k lumens either. 5k-10k is already insanely bright and should be effective when combined with the right white-balance. Even 500-1000 lumens is plenty bright enough for most purposes. Higher kelvins (like 5k-8k) makes the light more bluish and that's what's most important for treating SAD. Some UV spectrum is helpful for that too as it helps with vitamin D synthesis
If color fidelity is important to your line of work, a bulb with 90-100 CRI is a great idea too.
My desk lamp has a 500 lumen, 5000 kelvin, 90+ CRI bulb and I can't imagine a situation where I would need it to be brighter. I have a similar bulb that's 1100 lumens but it feels like overkill.
HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 22d
We are not the boss of you. Do as you will, including choosing some limited number of hours of exposure.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
That is ridiculous. I mean I can believe they make them, I just can't believe they're legal. My headlight on my bike is only 500 lumen and it gets the street good enough for the speeds I can get up to.
HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 21d
Why.... wouldn't it be?
Bay light, not bike light. Next time you're in a big box store, look up. If they have round lights, those are the style.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 23d
40°C is very quickly unfun
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 23d
This seems like an excessively hostile reply to leave to an innocuous comment? Are you doing okay? I ask this earnestly; I know that I'm much more likely to leave angry comments if I'm having an especially bad day, so I was wondering if the same might be true for you
hOrni@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d
Obviously I'm having a bad day. It's wednesday so I had to go to work.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 22d
It's okay, your country will be subtropical in a few years while everyone else is already being burnt out of existence
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 22d
This is heartwarming.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 23d
Florida welcomes you with open arms. I get seasonal depression in the summer because it's too hot to do anything outside most days
carl_the_grackle@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 23d
Yeah but then you have to live in Florida
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 21d
Thanks to dysphoria, summer actually is the more depressive time for me
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 6 pts · 22d
Jennings coming out as goth is not a suprise to me at all.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d
Back when I proctored his championship attempt for LearnedLeague some years back, I got to talk to him for a bit and he was pretty cool.
Never imagined from that moment that he'd end up hosting Jeopardy!, though.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 23d
The lighting is weird in the back of a denny's parking lot