Anyone know a good cure for S.A.D.?

I’ve also tried mushrooms, which really are a native species, but again, they had little effect.

CBD oil really works really well… I thought it would have a negligible effect, so was very pleased when it instantly melted away my fibromyalgic/muscle pain, fatigue, eased my digestive woes, and relaxed my whole being. Now I know why there was a huge push to legalise it… fantastic stuff!

I do regret not trying it sooner, but hey! better late than never lol.

Maybe I’ll try it, but my worry with all drugs, even natural ones, is that I’ll become dependent on them. Not necessarily addicted, just dependent. What I would really like is to do something active, which I’m sure would help (at the moment my evenings are active, at work, and my days not). At school I really enjoyed the various team sports they had, in particular, ones called goalball and squatball, specifically designed for blind players, and also an adapted version of field hockey, but there are no clubs round here I could join, since there are never enough people to form a team.

Perhaps doing some squats and push-ups in your garden might work for you then, followed by running a few lengths of your garden and doing a squat as you reach each end? doing the whole process mentioned for a total of 20 minutes… the recommended time for reaping the benefits of heart-rate-raising exercise. A few times a week would suffice, and give your body time to recover inbetween workouts.

This should be a real mood-lifter, and is free… you could also add skipping, jumping jacks, burpees etc. to your workouts, to mix it up.

I very much agree that I need a regular exercise routine, but 20 minutes really doesn’t sound like much though. When I’ve attempted things like this in the past, I’ve started off with one hour in the morning, gradually expanding to three hours.

If I could go for a 5 min run each day I’d consider that a monumental achievement lol. Just getting my heartrate up is all I need to do.

I’ve given myself a minimum of 3,000 steps per day + any activities I need to do/feel I am capable of… tomorrow is a new dawn a new day, and I don’t think about it until then, so I check my e-calendar before bed and then so to sleep I go.

I set my alarm for 5.45 this morning and did an hour of squats outside. Getting back into this routine will also help me get up and go to bed at something approaching normal times, which is always a serious issue for me. Left to my own devices I would simply sleep and get up when I felt like it.

You could set progressive goals doing a bit more each day :slight_smile: That’s my plan, if I can get started lol. I’m always surprised how quickly I come back into shape… if I can get started. The hardest part of any journey is the first step.

Wow an hour of squats? Seems like you’re already in good shape lol. I know what you mean with sleep and sometimes I feel like I’m on a 25-hour day.

I remember reading somewhere that a 25-hour day is what humans default to, on average, if all external light stimuli are taken away.

A 3000 step minimum works for me, as I also have to take other factors into account on a daily basis of total energy expenditure, and now having added fortnightly weights sessions to my output (and more importantly… recovery) even more so.

Having said that, my average weekly output varies from anywhere between 20 to 35 thousand steps, so more dependent on necessity of moving, than adherence to a self-designated dogma.

It’s about self-optimisation… energy available, converting to pertinent output only.

I recommend starting with autosuggestion telling yourself you’re ok, you feel good and it will pass.For me I feel that changes the biochemistry inside and not vica versa but maybe doing it from both ends is most plausible and effective.

I think that would and can set the mind up in a positive place, for receptivity, but the mind cannot cure all ills and ails, but it is a good starting point for what we know we need to do to help/cure ourselves.

Autosuggestion will not make my body create more iron, or any other deficiencies I may have, but it will make me focus on what I need to do inorder to rectify it. Grief cannot be willed away either, even though our loved ones wish we could will it so, but yes… autosuggestion is a good place to start.

I’m still on an hour of squats each morning but am thinking of increasing it now.

I walk an average 2 - 3 miles a day 8 days a month
So my total step number at approximately I 500 steps a mile is 30 000 which is on average I 000 a day
However I measure distance walked in either miles or hours as steps are both too small and too many

If we factor in walking too, then my figure is an absolute minimum of 2 miles a day, 5 evenings a week, since I walk to and from work, which is a mile away. That’s not counting all the other walking I do, at home or going to the shops. At work I do a lot of running around, on a stop-start sort of basis, since most evenings I’m out on the court, assisting with the senior citizens’ sports club, which basically involves pushing their wheelchairs round. Other times I might be helping them in the pool.

I would hazard a guess that 1000 steps a day is an improvement on your previous steps-per-day average… that’s if you even had one at all? I know I didn’t, and it’s not a place I want to go to again, so knowing the trigger and avoiding it, is paramount to avoidance.

I could tell by the tone in your more recent posts, that you were mentally and physically in a more positive place… whatever it is that floors our cells and therefore our being, should not be allowed in the human food chain.

You are quite active, if not very… already - can you feel any improvement in yourself since starting your morning workouts?

Yes, I believe I can feel an improvement, if only a slight one, which is why I was thinking of increasing it to two hours. It’s also helping my sleep pattern.

Hey! that’s great… why more squats only though? Why not alternate knee to chest jumps, or star jumps in addition to squats? or some push-ups etc…

I could give them a go, but I’m far more used to squats as we had to practice them every day at school for the squatball team.