{"id":102444,"date":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/102444\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:48:07","slug":"how-to-cope-with-long-winter-nights-when-the-clocks-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/102444\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cope with long winter nights when the clocks go back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Parr points out that people in rural communities often have limited access to social and medical support to help them through winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So for the first time this year, islanders on Orkney are being offered therapeutic lamps to help them cope with Sad and counter the effects of low light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These will be handed out from libraries as part of &#8216;Wintering Well&#8217; boxes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lamps come alongside an activity guide and tools to help people develop a routine for good mental health when daylight is in short supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Parr says: &#8220;We&#8217;re pitching our resources at an attitudinal shift, a psychological mind-shift towards winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So that we get out and enjoy winter, no matter what the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve put that into a book and a CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) course in partnership with a psychiatrist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tools in the box include a winter sky frame. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a simple cardboard cut-out, that people are encouraged to hold for 10 minutes to observe a small patch of sky, to help lift their mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Parr points out that people in rural communities often have limited access to social and medical support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-102444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}