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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com> wrote:


> Just curious - such a flood of homestead emails the past few
> days!
>  
> Makes me wonder about the Daylight Savings thing - I know
> it's a 'manmade  
> issue', and so I've always discounted it as
> rubbish, and as one more instance of 
>  humans messing with Mother Nature. But -
>  
> Does anyone else feel the horrible pressure of shorter
> days? The irony of  
> all this being...I have been going to bed earlier (say, 7-8
> p.m.) and waking at  
> my normal 1-2:30 a.m., but...going back to bed just as the
> sun  breaks 
> through the trees to the east, and all the indoor critters
> are just  getting 
> started, waiting for me to open doors and windows - and I
> feel  compelled to re-wrap 
> myself up in my fuzzy blankets and return to total 
> oblivion.
>  
> Something is not right here.
>  
> Is it true, this concept of 'winter depression?
> There's a name for it -  
> starts with an 'S', but I can't remember it. If
> it IS a reality, then do those  of 
> us on the list, who live in the northern parts of the
> world, suffer from this 
>  more than those of us who live in the southern and western
> areas?

Some people are helped by the special lights that copy the daylight spectrum. 
 My wife has had some success with that.  sitting in front of the light for a 
couple of hours can help.
Van Dell