Does Your Computer Give Enough Light to Be Used as Treatment for Depression?

No, it does not. :/ A computer lacks most of the light the sun does. For me, the computer makes all depression worse because I use it to avoid doing what needs done, which makes me feel useless, which makes me avoid doing it, and on and on.

From what i understand is there is vitamin D in sunlight which is NOT in the light from your computer and that is part of what makes sunlight good for treating depression

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a subtype of major depressive disorder, is symptomatic depending on the number of daylight hours in a day. This means that the lower number of daylight hours in a day, the more prevalent the symptoms. Although light therapy (through a lightbox, a specific device) has been proposed as treatment for SAD, not much is known about its effectiveness on a longer scale. What is known, however, is that since the number of daylight hours correlate with the symptoms it may just be that: (1) SAD could be treated by artificially increasing the number of daylight hours a person is experiencing; and (2) using artificial light that is akin to sunlight. The light from a computer, however, wouldn't be much help because it doesn't really fit the criteria stated above.

Treatment for depression to get yourself busy and avoid negative thoughts by doing positive work. Mylot is one great way to get yourself busy.

Wouldn't it be great if it did! So I did some checking to find out --- and no, sadly to say, it sounds like in order for a light source to be effective for SAD, it needs to be at least 2500lux (or about 10 times brighter than a standard light bulb).