Health effects of praseodymium. Praseodymium is mostly dangerous in the working environment, due to the fact that damps and gasses can be inhaled with air. This can cause lung embolisms, especially during long-term exposure. Praseodymium can be a threat to the liver when it accumulates in the human body.
The symptoms of it mimic those of dysthymia or even major depressive disorder. There is also potential risk of suicide in some patients experiencing SAD. One study reports 6â35% of sufferers required hospitalization during one period of illness.
Most people with SAD are depressed only during the late fall and winter (sometimes called the winter blues) and not during the spring or summer. That many cultures celebrate a number of holidays during the winter can be an additional stress for people with SAD.