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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: why do suicide rates increase during the holiday season?
gpt
Christmas is usually a time when families and loved ones get together to celebrate. During the holiday season, people who are lonely feel more alone than ever because everyone else is celebrating with their loved ones while they are on their own.

Add to that that, in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is cold, dark and hostile and many countries rarely see the sun, making seasonal depression a lot more common and intense than usual.