SAD Treatment
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Hi!
After years of suffering from seasonal depression that drastically impacts my life, impairs my ability to function and makes me suicidal, I'm trying to raise enough money for a SAD lamp and a weighted blanket to help manage and ease my symptoms.
Research has shown that SAD lamps have been extremely beneficial in reducing the symptoms of seasonal depression, and many people have reported that their symptoms have improved after just 2 weeks of using one! Similarly, weighted blankets help ease stress and anxiety by providing a sense of security, which I really believe could help me cope with the feelings of panic and being trapped that I get on 'bad weather days'. Furthermore, my seasonal depression is accompanied by insomnia which exacerbates the depression further and makes it even harder to function. However, both SAD lamps and weighted blankets have been proven to help manage insomnia!
I have been feeling pretty hopeless recently, as after months of therapy and trying to use all the skills I can my depressive symptoms have failed to ease off, and come back with full force each year. I truly can't see how I could live like this for the rest of my life, and yet the idea that there are things like these out there that could really help me fills me with so much hope! It's that time of year again when things are becoming so much more difficult, painful and quite frankly unbearable - but I'm trying so hard to do everything I can to help myself and that's why I really want to try these as I don't want to give up yet whilst there are still things out there that have so much potential to help me and I haven't tried yet!
Unfortunately, neither is available on the NHS and that is why I need YOUR help so that I can afford to buy these products I desperately need. If you can, I would be eternally grateful for any donation - no matter how small, every little helps and I really do believe this might change my life!
Thank you so much,
Anna xxx
After years of suffering from seasonal depression that drastically impacts my life, impairs my ability to function and makes me suicidal, I'm trying to raise enough money for a SAD lamp and a weighted blanket to help manage and ease my symptoms.
Research has shown that SAD lamps have been extremely beneficial in reducing the symptoms of seasonal depression, and many people have reported that their symptoms have improved after just 2 weeks of using one! Similarly, weighted blankets help ease stress and anxiety by providing a sense of security, which I really believe could help me cope with the feelings of panic and being trapped that I get on 'bad weather days'. Furthermore, my seasonal depression is accompanied by insomnia which exacerbates the depression further and makes it even harder to function. However, both SAD lamps and weighted blankets have been proven to help manage insomnia!
I have been feeling pretty hopeless recently, as after months of therapy and trying to use all the skills I can my depressive symptoms have failed to ease off, and come back with full force each year. I truly can't see how I could live like this for the rest of my life, and yet the idea that there are things like these out there that could really help me fills me with so much hope! It's that time of year again when things are becoming so much more difficult, painful and quite frankly unbearable - but I'm trying so hard to do everything I can to help myself and that's why I really want to try these as I don't want to give up yet whilst there are still things out there that have so much potential to help me and I haven't tried yet!
Unfortunately, neither is available on the NHS and that is why I need YOUR help so that I can afford to buy these products I desperately need. If you can, I would be eternally grateful for any donation - no matter how small, every little helps and I really do believe this might change my life!
Thank you so much,
Anna xxx
Organizer and beneficiary
Anna Elizabeth MacLean
Organizer
England
Helen Myrtle
Beneficiary
