I gave up going to the tanning bed a few years back when I decided 1) I wanted to live to be older than 40 or so 2)I didn't want to be a wrinkly old hag and 3) It's kind of unnatural to be tan all year long. A good number of my friends still go tanning regularly and as winter stretches on, I'm starting to really crave a tanning session or two. It's so warm and when I close my eyes and doze off and on, it's like I'm really on a beach. Granted, sometimes I think "this is a plastic bed of cancer" but most of the time it's really quite lovely. My aunt has been diagnosed with seasonal depression and the doctor gave her a special light to sit under a certain amount of time during the day. So basically the tanning bed is the same thing, right? What do you think?
Sarah in the winter:
Sarah in the summer:
Is the seasonal depression at all evident?
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Oh how I love your wanna be stern face in pictures. Somehow you still manage to smile through it. :) Ok, serious, personal moment. I have struggled every winter with the same thing...the after holiday shock but then it doesn't leave...and then turns into more. Actually today is supposedly the most depressive day of the year (Christmas bills, cold, tax season coming up, etc). Last winter was the first winter I can remember where I did not get depressed. Praise God! It was awesome and so far it is the same this winter. I read a book that helped me a lot. (Victory over Depression by Bob George). Not that you go read a book and it's fixed (actually I read it a few years earlier and it made me mad). But God used it to really work in my little heart last year. And we have skin cancer in my familia so the tanning bed thing isn't even an option. So, I go for the electric blanket! Not nearly as glamorous but still warm.
Yeah, sorry Sarah Rachel, I have to agree that it's a little bed of skin cancer!
I think Amy and Anya were talking about the Jergens self tanning lotion last year. I know it's not warm and sunny, but it smells delicious and it makes a nice, natural looking tan!
YES YES Brenda!! I love that Jergens stuff! SR, I thought you were using it too? I have to say that I have the same problem with winter time. I am blessed to be able ti live here in So Cal.
DH works with a guy whose wife has been battling melanoma for like 5 years. Anyways we all just found out about it, and I was literally getting ready to go tanning, but decided that it was a dumb decision! I have kids who need me, and I shouldn't be making voluntary decisions that could potentially kills me. So, I opt for the lotion, and if I really need some color, I go to a spray tan session. Hang in there, Spring is just around the corner!
I totally understand what you are talking about -- I always have a depressive period between Jan and March. I need warmth, sun, the whole 9 yards. I need to go buy another bottle of Jergen's -- that will make me feel a little bit better.........
I miss the sun too, but being a west coast girl, its mostly rain here, so I am use to it I guess. Stay strong, sun is coming soon!!!
every since I was allowed to tan,I couldnt make it past January without starting to tan once or twice a week, I swear I have seasonal depression as well,I feel so bad without the sunlight,and I hate looking at my ghostly body :(
Suggestion: Combine all of the comments and you have the perfect fix. Buy a self tanner, put it on and lie under an electric blanket for 20 mins and pretend. :) Love ya girl.
I know it is April now and you have been to the beach and all and so you are probably tan now BUT I just want you to know you can think of me next winter when your tanning bed craving kicks in. I am a 7 year melanoma survivor. I am not sure if you knew that or not! My junior year in college (after several years of going to tanning beds in high school and early in college) I had a melanoma on my face. Thankfully they caught it early and I didn't have to do chemo or radiation (although they did take a HUGE chunk of my face in surgery!). But now I can't tan at all. :) SPF 45, wide-brimmed hats, and spray on tans for me!
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