Here’s a great idea.
There’s a market for it here in Vancouver, let alone the rest of Canada and the non tropical world. We saw sun once yesterday 29 straight days of rain, one day of sunshine, and it’s back to another week of rain.
The Dana Café at the Science museum in London offers free 20-minute light treatments to counter the effect of dark winter days. It
… contains four specially designed light boxes, each of which produces light more than five times brighter than normal house lights. The atmosphere is designed to be relaxing, with the light boxes arranged around a circular sofa.
SAD – seasonal affective disorder or the winter blues, affects up to 500,000 Britons.
…up to one in eight people in the UK are thought to experience a milder form of the condition, known as sub-syndromal SAD. Symptoms can include sleep problems, lethargy, overeating, anxiety, loss of libido and mood swings. Exposure to bright light for between one and four hours a day can be an effective treatment for SAD in up to 90% of cases.
It is thought that light triggers a change in chemical production within the brain, raising levels of the mood chemical serotonin, and slowing production of the hormone melatonin, which is responsible for making us sleepy and animals hibernate. However, only bright light has any beneficial effect.
Sounds like a great humanitarian and business opportunity for an enterprising ADDer. Especially someone who has a seasonal spring/ summer/early fall job.