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Article: For sale: light therapy by the hour; SAD: key treatment to be made available for (pounds) 5 on the high street
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- September 12, 2004
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With weeks to go before the clocks go back, it may feel like the
dark clutches of winter are still a way off.
But September is the time when sufferers of Seasonal Affective
Disorder (SAD) start to feel the effects of darkening skies.
SAD sufferers can endure months of depression, lethargy and
glumness due to the lack of natural light - up to 500,000 people
suffer from SAD in the UK, most of them in Scotland where daylight
can shrink to just five hours in January.
But this year, for the first time in Britain, a cure can be found
on the high street.
Edinburgh-based Buddhafield - an alternative therapy and lifestyle
centre - is offering customers professional-standard light therapy
using ...