Joined: Apr 28, 2006
Posts: 78
Location: Stockholm
Darkness
I'm having a hard time with the darkness this year. I'm not sure why, since I have lived here for over 8 years. But this year it seems to be dragging me down. I get up in the dark it is gray, wet, all day and dark again by 3pm.
I have my Chirstmas lights in the window and I'm listening to Chirstmas music. Decorating and candles but for some reason I'm feeling alittle more low this year early too than most.
Any cures for the darkness blues, other than drinking myself silly.
Thanks for any advice.
Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:18 pm
LindaC Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 1177
Location: Piteċ Kommun, Sweden
Exercise.
I know it's a horrible thing to say to someone, but it is effective. _________________ I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
-- Douglas Adams
Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:31 pm
Jaenelle stor stark
Joined: Aug 19, 2005
Posts: 378
Location: Skellefteå
oh! You still have sun at 3! luxury! Sun set before 1.30pm here today! *srun* But yea, get out, meet up with friends, do things. You CAN go out and walk and stuff even when it's dark. I find it helps. It may feel like night, but it isn't really. Perhaps go into town and do some shopping? That's always fun. Even if it's just window shopping!
Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:16 pm
Daniel Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Oct 23, 2004
Posts: 936
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
I hear light therapy is good.
Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:01 pm
montchan stor stark
Joined: Jul 23, 2004
Posts: 387
Location: Umeå
Like Linda said - exercise.
And full spectrum light bulbs.
Hang in there! 20 more days and it will start getting better!
Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:42 pm
GregK Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 911
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
If you are in the Göteborg area, you can check out Old's Beach:
http://oldsbeach.se/ _________________ If you think you have it tough, imagine what your ancestors went through.
Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:08 pm
columbia Nybörjare
Joined: Aug 24, 2007
Posts: 17
This news story from the Boston Globe should cheer anyone up:
How the heck would that cheer up any but the raving anti-gay rights lunatics? The retards in the 'justice system' strike again.
Unless you meant: "Cheer up, at least that kind of crap is much less likely here" in which case, I happily agree!
FatCat... one thing my hubby and I do every winter that really does help is to increase our Vitamin D intake. Sounds strange, but it really does seem to help with the blues in the winter time. Hope you are feeling better soon.
--Michele
Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:05 am
sunshine_girl Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 1220
Location: Jordbro, Stockholm Previously Nova Scotia, Canada
Increase your vitamin D intake like Michele suggested. And light therapy works wonders. In Stockholm there's Igloo cafe in Hornstull. They have light therapy.
Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:59 am
GregK Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 911
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
quote:Originally posted by Fairydust:
quote:Originally posted by columbia: This news story from the Boston Globe should cheer anyone up:
How the heck would that cheer up any but the raving anti-gay rights lunatics? The retards in the 'justice system' strike again.
Unless you meant: "Cheer up, at least that kind of crap is much less likely here" in which case, I happily agree!
--Michele
Michele, if same sex marriage is not recognized in Rhode Island, by the State's legislature, how can a divorce from an unrecognized marraige be recognized?
So you're saying that if someone believes in retaining the concept of traditional marriage, and not requiring its recognition (to include filing for "divorce" when another state permits same sex marraige them they must be a "raving anti-gay right lunatic?
That's hardly the way to persuade people to your side of the argument. Tell them that if you don't agee with a radical change in a fundamental basis of human society, marriage and family, then they are "raving lunatics".
The R.I. Supreme Court ruling had it EXACTLY RIGHT. Its not the judicial branch's role to make policy or write state law. _________________ If you think you have it tough, imagine what your ancestors went through.
Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:06 am
FatCat swedish meatball
Joined: Apr 28, 2006
Posts: 78
Location: Stockholm
Thanks for all the tips and I do get exercise but of course not the sweating type. I have a three story house and I'm up and down stairs all day long. I do walk almost every day at least 6 blocks or more.
I will go out and buy some vitamin D today.
I think I just need a vacation, havent had a good one in over two year, unless you call a three day to Helsinki.
Going home for Chirstmas, maybe that is the answer.
Thanks again.
Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:55 am
Mimsie Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 1275
Location: Swede in Boston, MA
quote:Originally posted by GregK: ...
The R.I. Supreme Court ruling had it EXACTLY RIGHT. Its not the judicial branch's role to make policy or write state law.
Exactly! Don't see what there for anyone to be upset about - law is law.
Also, what the heck did posting that article to begin with have to do with the darkness at all?
Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:33 pm
FatCat swedish meatball
Joined: Apr 28, 2006
Posts: 78
Location: Stockholm
Also, what the heck did posting that article to begin with have to do with the darkness at all? [/quote]
I was about to ask the same thing. I see so many threads going off the path of the topic of the originial subject.
Oh well, gotta go take my vitamins now and maybe go to be early for a change.
Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:19 pm
Neitha stor stark
Joined: Apr 29, 2003
Posts: 277
Location: Austin, TX, after 8 years in Helsingborg
I took a look at the link to oldsbeach in Göteborg---that's hilarious! Has anyone done it?
Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:43 am
GregK Amerikanska medborgare
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 911
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
quote:Originally posted by Neitha: I took a look at the link to oldsbeach in Göteborg---that's hilarious! Has anyone done it?
Yes, I have... which is how i knew about it.
The CEO of the company i work for invited us all (about 25 or so) out to it on the companies dime almost a year ago.
It's basically half sandbox (but smaller than i expected), with a giant floor to celing wall mural of what looks like Fiji or something (or maybe a beach in Thailand), lots of beach chairs, sounds of gentle ocean surf, and a DJ spinning beach and calypso tunes. The other half is sorta restaurant and quasi-pub serving drinks with umbrellas and cold beer with banana trees and other stuff to make you feel you are a long way from Sweden.
Oh and of course lots and lots of bright lights which alternate between a feeling of bright sun and dim a bit to simulate a passing cloud. There are also fans to keep it a comfortable temp.
There's also a decent menu of food from what was claimed as Carribbean cuisine. Good but not really what i recall was on offer on my visit to St Thomas some 20 years ago.
But then i was more focused on the rum in the V.I. than the food. _________________ If you think you have it tough, imagine what your ancestors went through.
Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:40 am
Leif Nybörjare
Joined: Jan 21, 2008
Posts: 4
Location: Guangzhou, China
i sleep all day
i know iam just saying this because i havent experianced "The Darkness" fyi rick james nickname to eddi and charlie murphy lol but i sleep all day and i love the dark i always have my bilnds shut and iam playing xbox or on the comp i prefer the dark but maybe if i moved to sweden i would miss the light i always appriciate what i dont have and i dont miss what i do have lol
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