[SolutionsOnly]

Doesn't Sweden also have one of the highest suicide and alcoholism rates of all the European nations as well? I thought

I read that somewhere a couple of years back. Little to do with economics: Scandinavian countries have high rates of depression and suicide due to sunlight deprivation

Agreed. Look the the stats for Alaska - the same problems exist there

[Killing Time]

Thanks. Not trying to make any particular point here, just that I know at least one person who does really suffer from SAD, which doesn't seem to be a made-up disease.

So it is not counter intuitive, for me at least, to think that those latitudes which are sun starved for long parts of the year might suffer high rates of depression, irrespective of any other factors.