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If sunlight prevents depression, can that mean that Scandinavian are less prone to depression?

...while summer since the sun never sets?

Scandinavians are well known to have suffered depression because their level of serotonin, the mood regulating hormone is reduced, during winter months. All people are susceptible to this phenomenon, in locations which experience long winters, not just Scandinavia.

However, Scandinavians are most vulnerable to this phenomenon, because they barely experience summer. Most of their year is spent indoors, snowbound, so no wonder they're depressed.

Actually, yes it does. Depression is statistically worse in places where the weather is cold, rainy, dull all the time! Seriously, this is true.

Sweden has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

and more prone to skin cancer ...

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