Try Light Therapy to Beat the Winter Blues

You’ve heard of SAD—seasonal affective disorder; a condition causing intense irritability, lack of energy, and an unceasing craving for carbs. You probably don’t have it, but that doesn’t mean your winter blues aren’t real: Each year, about half of Americans report feeling down once it gets cold. (The rest moved to L.A.) So we’ve compiled fancy gadgets, restorative beauty products, and therapeutic advice to help you get through.

Eighteen months ago, the Internet company where I work moved into a new office. I wound up in a windowless pod along with a dozen other people. Since then, we’ve been engulfed in fluorescent-lit gloom. It’s worse now that it gets dim outside long before we leave work. Without a sense of the sun’s progression, strange things happen: Time stretches like taffy, energy dips, and mealtimes are forgotten entirely.