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clare I'am so pleased you ordered one of these golites and I'm also glad its your first light therapy device..

I would love for you to let us know of your experience so that other people can read your experiences..

Poo poo when I'm busy I tend to speed read through many posts and reply ignorantly, I do apologise..

My personal experiences are that when I first started using the device it was pushing my body clock too far back that I was becoming overly phase advanced which is the opposite to SAD sufferers which usually have a delayed body clock. So I used it for less time, at first I needed 10 to 15 minutes but then because of its use my body clock was healing for it became more delayed so then needed to use it more.. Now I'm doing about 40 minutes in the morning then whenever I want during the day.. The good thing is that’s its portable and also can be battery powered. My normal 10'000 lux light box is a joke to me now, it has no effect on my SAD although it used to when I first started light therapy which was almost 2 years ago.

Since having a synchronized body clock, I found I have more energy, more relaxed, hardly depressed, less ill and if I do get ill for less time. Only thing is my food cravings hasn't gone but that’s because before light therapy I was so physically depressed that my eating went down rather then comfort eat..

But therapy alone isn't the answer to your questions.. There are 3 things you should do when curing SAD.

1) Timing
2) intensity
3) Duration

Timing - Wake up everyday at the same time and do your light therapy as soon as you wake up at the same time everyday, this is the most important time of the day to do your light therapy and also keeping the same pattern, if you need to wake up earlier one day for an occasion gradually wake up 30 minutes early or later each day till you get to the right time on that occasion so that you don't confuse your body clock.

Intensity - the effectiveness of the light therapy.. usually 10'000 lux or the latest technology which is blue light band width.

Duration - No use doing light therapy for 2 minutes as soon as you wake up, it will hardly make any difference, make note of the effects some times especially in people new to light therapy they can do too much light therapy that it makes them sleepy.. this effect can take afew weeks to afew months to go and the reason its caused is because there is 2 Circadian Rhythm's that govern the human body clock and often new SAD light therapy uses could get side effects of extreme tiredness that could come with depression but these side effects usually go within time and can be sorted by basically lowering light therapy duration.. Simply decrease your duration of light therapy if this is happening or increase your light therapy if the effects are not working.

author - Pete :)

now that is very difficult I'm affraid.. I mean you could simply do light therapy every time you wake up different hours but light therapys effect will either wont be as great or non at all because the body clock realises the confusion then it starts to use its own version of day and night which isn't as accurate as doing light therapy and having it synchronized..

Not only that but I should point out that waking up different times could make you worse and cause problems in the long run, but of course this all depends on how strong/senisitve your body clock is..