Help & Advice
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder [or SAD]?
SAD is a type of winter depression, affecting as many as two million people in the UK each winter between September and February. Symptoms include a general feeling of gloom and misery, a lack of interests in normal social activities and an overall feeling of depression for no obvious reason. Some people refer to S.A.D. as Seasonal Affected Disorder or SAD Disorder.
SAD symptoms may be accompanied by a craving for carbohydrates and sweet foods, often resulting in unwanted weight gain, adding to SAD depression. Sufferers find that they can sleep longer but wake up feeling tired and gain no benefit from the extra sleep. Very often, SAD is a disregarded illness, with sufferers putting their symptoms down to the 'winter blues'. However SAD Disorder can be an extremely debilitating condition
Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder through SAD Light Therapy.
Seasonal affective disorder light therapy (using Seasonal Affective Disorder Lamps) has been proved effective in 85% of diagnosed cases. Unfortunately ordinary light bulbs and fittings are just not strong enough to treat SAD. SAD light therapy treatment should be used daily in winter (and dull periods in summer).
Treatment consists of sitting two to three feet away from a specially designed light box for short periods every day. Light box users can carry out all their normal everyday activity whilst sitting in front of the light box; reading, sewing, working etc. It is not necessary to stare at the light although it has proved safe and SAD light therapy is usually effective within four or five days of starting.
Hiring and purchasing light boxes
In addition to our vast range of products that we have for sale, you can also RENT products from us for a small monthly fee. This applies to Light Boxes for SAD, certain TENS machines, Acticate TSE etc.
The minimum rental period is just one month and at the end of the rental period you can send it back if it doesn't work or if you wish to purchase, we will allow you half of any rentals paid offset against the purchase price. If you want to rent for a further month or longer then of course you can. All that we ask is that you keep the original packaging that we send the product to you in - just in case you do need to return the goods - which isn't very often!!
The scheme allows people just to test the effectiveness of equipment prior to purchase and has been the success story of our company since formation.
Customer Service
Look-After-Yourself.com provide light boxes for hire and for purchase in the UK and abroad. Customer service is of paramount importance and this is reflected by thousands of satisfied customers since the original company started in 1996. As a family business we can provide answers to any queries you may have regarding seasonal affective disorder light therapy.
You can contact us anytime (even outside normal office hours) and your call will be taken by a real person, not an answering service. Our staff can call on a wealth of knowledge regarding seasonal affective disorder light therapy to answer any question you may have on the effective treatments of SAD Disorder using their vast range of SAD Lights. You can trust us to deliver, whatever your needs.