A friend shared a fascinating article with me written in the Economist on 17th October 2025 – what do you think?
True or False?

The article suggests that 10% of the population find long, dark nights depressing. Apparently this is known as SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder. Possible contributors to SAD are minimized melatonin, a hormone that balances and keeps an eye on how we sleep. Another culprit could be decreased serotonin levels which may mess with our body’s internal rhythms.

Could Antidepressants help? But is that just smothering the cause by focusing only on the symptoms? Can buying luminous light bits and bobs banish the desolate, discouraging, ;dark cloud’?

My thoughts:
Depends on your perception – if you believe bright lights will lighten your life they probably will, however if you find them over stimulating and cant go to sleep, they won’t.

I love the positive message @Bruce Lipton – Newtonian physicist transformed into a Quantum physicist – wites the book The Biology of Belief. Simplistically, in my understanding of the scientific detail Bruce presents, the membrane of our cells are ‘the brains’ controlling our bodies. ‘The environment’ that crosses that membrane can, according to Bruce, redesign our cellular structure. ‘The environment’ can be our actual physical environment like bright lights or calming nature music, or it can be our thoughts – the positive or negative ones. So if we believe with positive thoughts we can change the cellular structure internally our body responds accordingly.

To add to those understandings Napoleon Hill, author of ‘Think and Grow Rich’, and Napoleon does not mean solely financially rich, suggests our unconscious believes what we tell it. So if we are upbeat and optimistic in our thinking we will attract bright and cheerful people and circumstances towards us, but if we are depressive and downbeat in our thinking the opposite comes true.