Summer light trigger suicide in Greenland

Summer light trigger suicide in Greenland

Connectors from the usual to say about the winter darkness and depression, it's summer light, which drives people to suicide. It shows a Swedish study of suicide in Greenland. It is a research team at Karolinska Institute, which concludes that sommerlys given the number of suicides to rise dramatically.

Karin Sparring Björk Stone who led the investigation, has examined all suicides in Greenland from 1968 to 2002. Here she found a marked trend in the summer months and with the most suicides in June, where the sun burns the longest.

The trend is most pronounced in the northern part of Greenland. Here 82 percent of suicides committed in the bright months.

Sol declare alcohol as a cause Similarly, studies from Norway and Finland supports the Swedish study assumption that there is sunlight, which increases the number of suicides. The study excludes that alcohol is the cause. This breaks the Greenland consumption itself evenly over the years. However, too little sleep during the bright months as a triggering factor.

- If you have facilities for mental health problems, it may become much worse if you sleep poorly, "says Björk Stone for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.