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[arethinn]

unseelie:

"...I suffer from seasonal depression when and only when I don't have even the smallest bit of window in line-of-sight for most of the daylight hours. In the US, even maximum-security prisons are required to have windows for every cell."

Whoa. Industry is prison, indeed. I'm glad I'm not seasonally affective, because I spend at least half my life either underground or in the dark. I get exposed to sunlight for about two waking hours when I get up and go to work, although I suppose you could consider the hours between sunrise and that time when I am still sleeping as "exposure", in a sense (my room isn't all that dark except ~May-Sept, when I block my western window with a reflector so as to block the infrared, and the northern window obviously admits less light than western). Then, it's off to the dungeon (i.e. basement), and except for some time in June and July when it is twilight when I leave, it's always well after sunset by the time I go home.

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[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

From November to February, it's dark when I leave for work, and dark when I get back, therefore limiting my daily sun exposure to half an hour of my lunch break before I come in from the freezing cold to actually eat. I think I really only need a couple of hours, I just don't get it for months at a time, at my current job. It loses.