Thank you so much for answering my post, ElasaMars! It is of enormous value to be reached out to when one is struggling with a serious problem.

Like I wrote yesterday, I got the idea while I wrote the post that I could try to get up use the lamp early and than go to bed again if I felt for it. I tried that this morning and so far it has functioned OK. I'm still depressed though, but perhaps a little more on the hope site, that is that it still is possible to do something to get control over the "Winter depression".

I did post it in the bipolar forum because I have read some place that SAD is a cyclic disorder and as such part of the bipolar diagnoses. I forgot that many bipolar people cannot use the recommended lamp for SAD .

May be the best is to take this problem up in the Depression forum or another forum. SAD is not cured from one day to another. Support will be needed for some time.