My personal experience is consistent with your second point. But I'd be careful about making conclusions from the suicide/antidepressant statistics. It's show

My personal experience is consistent with your second point. But I'd be careful about making conclusions from the suicide/antidepressant statistics. It's shown to be highly correlated to altitude. I've included a couple links from google search to demonstrate the point. That being said, the Mormon/LDS church does cause some psychological hardships for certain groups such as LGBT and ex-mormons... at least in my anecdotal experience. suicide rate map: http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/03/higher-suicide-rates-out-west-due-to.html http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/03/higher-suicide-rates-o... altitude map: http://weather.unisys.com/usgs/ http://weather.unisys.com/usgs/