SAD..Seasonal affective disorder.. how do you northern guys deal with it?

RSie said
I always used to think this was just baloney lazy bullshit. I'm in central Wisconsin.. go to work in the dark, sit in a office with a small window up above my head I can't see out of. Leave in the dark. When I get home, I just want to eat, and go to bed. No ambition. Lots of thoughts during the day..and just no energy to do anything. In the summer, the wife has a hard time getting me to come in by 10 on a weekday, having fun doing stuff. It's almost 8:30 and I'm not in bed yet.. odd for me right now.
Just wondering if any of you get this way in the winter.. and what you do, if anything, to get motivated.

First, use bright full spectrum lighting indoors whenever you can and spend time exposed to it. Second, go outside during the day when the sun is shinning even if it’s just to sit in your car with the motor running and the heat on.

The key to combating SAD is light exposure to a full spectrum that is and/or mimics the Sun for some prolonged period each day.

Humans have rodent DNA from our evolution that makes us want to hibernate in Winter. Since we can’t, the key is light to counter-act that desire buried deep in our genome.