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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder - Light Treatments
- Message-ID: <27842@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:26:23 GMT
- References: <hank.720731904@well.sf.ca.us> <27739@castle.ed.ac.uk> <hank.720988194@well.sf.ca.us>
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- In article <hank.720988194@well.sf.ca.us> hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts) writes:
- >In <27739@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
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- >>In article <hank.720731904@well.sf.ca.us> hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts) writes:
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- >>>halogen lights contain enough UV to cause eye damage.
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- >>3) For the treatment of SAD is it necessary for the eyes to be exposed
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- >Be careful. Being depressed is better than being blind and depressed,
- >according to friends of mine who've been blind from birth and also have
- >SAD. Don't put your eyesight at any risk.
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- Aha! So if one can be blind, and suffer from SAD, then it is clearly
- not necessary to _look_ at the light! -- which makes it quite easy to
- be safe.
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