Spend your winter vacation down south. Graduate to light-box therapy. She may recommend a bright light burning at 10,000 lux for 30 minutes to two hours a day. Dr. Ragucci estimates that three out of four people she treats respond to light-box therapy. Plug in a dawn simulator.
Doctors say that early trials with dawn simulators have been encouraging.
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