Light Therapy for Bipolar Disorder

Along with the erratic emotion situations, individuals with bipolar disorder also often suffer abnormal circadian cycles (sleep-wake rhythms). Studies have demonstrated that shaping the sleep cycle employing all kinds of therapy (as it's employed for the seasonal affective disorder - SAD patients) can't only enhance sleep-wake situations but also allow stabilize the emotional condition in bipolar disorder patients.

In latest studies a journal on bipolar disorders, highly bright light therapy (including blue light treatment - that is very useful for equal mood disorders) is good is alleviation bipolar disorder symptoms, particularly if the treatment sessions are about forty-five minutes long, performed at noon (i.e. not in the night or at morning). Clinical researches indicated that more than sixty percent of the patients healed with the treatment with varied schedules reacted positively, while from the entire sample, about 50 percent of the patients treated reacted fully to this treatment.

Light sources radiating 10000 lux of full-spectrum blue light at about 60 cm either in the daybreak or noon (at whichever hour the patient reacts best to any treatments), and for treatments between 30 minutes to an hour long are mostly believed to be the most effective for treatment, creating a favorable development within a month of treatment in most cases.