“here you live it is important to get at least half an hour of sunlight daily. At your latitude seasonal affective disorder is more common”
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I believe that—it’s dark when we wake and take the dog out and dark around 5:30. I’ve even commented about this to other people. It’s even worse when we visit my MIL in northern Gaspe—the sun goes down at 3:30! We saw the Northern Lights! (beautiful, of course).
That is good advice—they actually sell sunshine machines at the local drugstore to help with this.
I would buy one of those lamps. I lived in Northeastern Vermont for two years. People would get depressed and drink a lot over the winter. But about the middle of May they would become joyful and sort of manic. I experienced this myself and later looked into it.