Light therapy is used to treat major depressive disorder with seasonal patterns sleep disorders and other types of depression.
Light therapy for seasonal depression.
It is often effective though doctors do not know exactly why.
Light therapy is a way to treat seasonal affective disorder sad and certain other conditions by exposure to artificial light.
Light therapy is one of the go to treatments for seasonal affective disorder sad a type of seasonal mood disorder that leaves people feeling lonely depressed or isolated and typically.
During light therapy you sit or work near a device called a light therapy box.
Choosing a light therapy box light therapy boxes can offer an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder.
Light therapy or phototherapy classically referred to as heliotherapy consists either of a exposure to daylight or some equivalent form of light as a treatment for seasonal affective disorder sad or b exposure of the skin to specific wavelengths of light using polychromatic polarised light to treat a skin condition.
Sad is a type of depression that occurs at a certain time each year usually in the fall or winter.
Everyday health contributor therese borchard lists six kinds of light therapy that may help.
It is used as a treatment for wintertime seasonal affective.