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While checking another list, I came across this letter about Positive-ion danger from computer monitors and a simple solution. I emailed the author, Dan, and received his permission to reprint the letter for the PD list. Because many of us (caregivers and PDer's alike) spend many hours in front of the computer I thought the list members might be interested. ==================================================== >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:49:57 -0400 >From: [log in to unmask] (Daniel Stapleton) >Subject: Positive ion dangers - Computers causing stress / depression >Hello Netters, >As a psychology graduate student who spends countless hours sitting in front of a computer every day, I thought the members of this list would find this of great interest. On 2/14/95 CBS Evening News with Connie Chung, Dr. Bob Arnot did a story about negative ions and their effect on mood. They talked about a study done at Columbia University where exposure to a high density negative ion generator was as effective in treating winter depression as medications like Prozac. I became very interested because I have suffered from depression and anxiety for years, and I did extensive scientific research on the benefits of negative ions. >This research turned out to be especially interesting to me because I found a newspaper article discussing the fact that computer monitors emit positive ions - the opposite of negative ions. In the article, a consultant to the FDA says that computer monitors give off large amounts of positive ions and can actually cause depression, stress, fatigue, etc. in people who sit in front of computers a lot - like all of us Netters - and that we need negative ion replenishment. >After reading the article, I realized that I always felt especially irritable, stressed, and depressed after long days in front of my computer. In doing the research, I also found that negative ions have been shown in numerous studies to be therapeutic for stress, irritability, fatigue, depression, etc. So I purchased a small, high density generator and it has given me substantial relief from my symptoms. >If any of you would like to receive a copy of the transcript of the CBS news story, the newspaper article, as well as the other research that I have found, just e-mail me at <[log in to unmask]> with the words SEND RESEARCH in the _subject_ line. >-dan ==================================================== Dan's email address is in the letter and he says he will be glad to send the information he has compiled to anyone requesting it. I also have the information, so feel free to email me where to send it. If you're on a pay service and are charged extra for email's, I would be glad to print info out and snail-mail it to you if you will get your address to me. Llyn ***** Llyn Gruber <[log in to unmask]> ***** **** Whatever you can do, or dream you can, **** ***** begin it--Johann W. von Goethe *****