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Purpose maybe isn't quite the right word, but depression is evolved, and has a de facto social function, albeit a maddening one. It's a bit like chronic pain in
by psyc 9y ago
Purpose maybe isn't quite the right word, but depression is evolved, and has a de facto social function, albeit a maddening one. It's a bit like chronic pain in that regard. Crudely, winning at social games and conflicts tends to impart hormonal advantages that help an organism win more. Being chronically frustrated tends to make the organism drop out of the games.
- dogma1138 9y agoDepression has a role in our nervous system and technically even lobsters can be depressed but it doesn’t mean that it has the same secondary social effects as with humans. To put it simply purpose of depression can be completely different than the effects we experience it’s just that it doesn’t have any major disadvantages as far human reproduction goes so we didn’t had the chance to fuck it out of our gene pool.