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It's interesting you say that. There's this feeling when you do some work outside with your top off in the AM, it's like a recharge just standing there for the first moments. I'll still cover up before noon, but those first moments where the suns coming over the treeline and hits your skin, it's magic.

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>>There's this feeling when you do some work outside with your top off in the AM, it's like a recharge just standing there for the first moments.

Understanding I may not be on the fat part of bell curve when it comes to outdoor activities, but I've literally never experienced that feeling. Working with my top off means I'll spend the evening peeling blisters off my skin. Doesn't make my feeling or your feeling valid or invalid; but there's at best a tenuous line between how good something feels and how good it holistically is :-/

If you're getting blisters you've overshot the mark. Early morning sun is not going to do this, as it passes through much more atmosphere as it approaches you at an angle. Try covering up earlier, I'm talking about sunrise and the hour after, sunset and the hour before.

When people say "early" they can mean very different things, it's not really useful for gauging your actual risk.

Check a yearly UV index for your area. There are times of day that are completely safe for your skin type; but typically those times are quite early / late, like before 8am and after 4pm. UV tends to rise quite sharply in the morning, so while it might be a 2 or 3 at 8am it could be 5 or 6 at 9am (enough to burn your skin type).

When i was under paxil, i unwillingly skipped a day, not knowing this would trigger pain and brain zaps. I noticed everytime was getting sun to warm my skin, the pain and zaps would withdraw (the other one was chewing any food, i'm now extremely curious of the depth of these senses into our brain)

Paxil like many SSRIs can cause photosensitivity. [1] I suspect you were just noticing changes to photosensitivity associated with skipping a day.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19817765/

Thanks for the link, but it seems photosensitivity is tissue reaction like an allergy right ? In my case it was all neurological pain going away. And also it was also due to the warmth, it was deeper when outside directly hit compared to inside a room.

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