Light Box Bipolar

Light therapy may help some with bipolar disorder.

Light box bipolar.

Each day at. Light therapy can help treat depression that s part of seasonal affective disorder but it hasn t worked so well for treating bipolar disorder. Light therapy for bipolar is different if you already have figured out you have some degree of bipolarity then you ll need to be more careful with light therapy than someone using it for winter blues seasonal affective disorder sad. Light therapy has also been used to treat sleep disturbances schizoaffective disorder and premenstrual syndrome.

There are some cases in which light therapy may not be advisable such as if you have bipolar disorder. Both john hopkins medical center and the mayo clinic caution that light boxes may arouse manic symptoms if used without supervision but both prestigious centers nod to dr. If you have eye conditions such as eye damage glaucoma or cataracts you should consult with your ophthalmologist before using a light box. If you have past or current eye problems such as glaucoma cataracts or eye damage from diabetes get advice from your eye doctor before starting light therapy.

The study participants were told to place the light box about one foot from their face for 15 minutes between noon and 2 30 p m. Now on to light boxes another way to do light therapy.