It is indeed sad, but depression is a very aggressive illness at times (speaking from experience). This is a low sunlight area and from that alone you can get a lot of depression cases!  When I live in even E. WA where there is more sunlight, I don't have any problem with depression. It's the endless beauty that draws me here, to pay for it I have to always be on alert because thinking there is no other way out can come upon a person easily, it's very very sneaky.