# Season Affective Disorder- shopping advice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-affective-disorder-shopping-advice/89517>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 25, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-affective-disorder-shopping-advice/89517 "2001-10-25T11:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/season-affective-disorder-shopping-advice/89517/1 "2001-10-25T11:38:27Z")

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I promised myself last winter that THIS winter, I would buy light therapy objects to try to help me avoid turning into a heap of crap. Every winter gets a little worse, and last winter was the worst yet. If there is worse than that, frankly, I don’t want to know about it.

I’ve managed to scrape together about $200, which seems to indicate that I can afford either a very nice dawn simulator OR a bottom-of-the-line light box.

I could use some advice about which way to go on this.