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Why Choosing Greyscale On Your Phone Can Help You Find Joy And Avoid SAD During The Holidays

How can Christmas lights even compete with your phone screen?

Brian Deines
5 min readDec 2, 2019
Typical Phone, Lit up like a Christmas Tree.

BlueCross BlueShield recently sent out an eblast with a public service announcement warning about the coming Holiday-onset of Seasonal Depression, or SAD.

It made the intriguing admission that, “The exact cause of Seasonal Depression isn’t known.

SAD, the Great Winter Mystery Of Modern Medicine?

I’ve had SAD. I notice it when someone puts a single blue bulb on an otherwise white tree. I know what Elvis is yarbling about on Blue Christmas.

Sometimes I’ve known the cause. Other times, I just felt like shit.

Fortunately I believe I found a hack for SAD — Grayscale.

Yes, Grayscale — All Fifty Shades Of It

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Brian Deines
Brian Deines

Written by Brian Deines

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