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| | Let There be Light |
 | | Light therapy also often causes acute, though usually mild and transient, side effects, such as eyestrain, headaches, nausea, disturbed sleep, and overstimulation, which can take the form of nervousness, irritability, nutty euphoria, or even mania. |
 | | Most serious of all, a patient at a SAD clinic in Vienna became "overwhelmingly" suicidal, while two others actually tried to kill themselves within a week of starting light therapy. |
 | | The psychiatrists there suspect light is doing what antidepressant drugs sometimes do: activating depressives before it lifts their mood, giving them the impetus to act on suicidal feelings. |
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