More reasons to love and hate our favorite star. Sunlight is positively, if counterintuitively, linked to an increased risk of suicide, while too little sun causes vitamin D deficiency, a factor newly implicated in schizophrenia.
Suicides peak in May and June in the Northern Hemisphere and …
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To all readers,
I am a mother to a daughter that has suffered with schizophrenia for many years. I must say that I have never heard of this mind and sun theory. I have never experienced this with my daughter. On the contrary, she loves the sun and has never had any adverse reactions to it.
Where was this phenomenon derived from?
People who are obese often have a vitamin d deficiency, and lots of folks with schizophrenia are obese because of the antipsychotics they’re on. I think it probably has more to do with obesity than schizophrenia, but that’s just my opinion.
Can lack of sunlight truly be a significant factor or even possible cause of schizophrenia! wow! I know that some forms of depression are severely affected by lack of sunshine so this really does make alot of sense to me, and i think it should definately be researched alot more extensively. It gives me a little hope to think that this very complex, and complicated disease may actually have some simple, and natural answers, and (hopefully) treatments.